From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JaoNx-00024Y-3q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:38:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4B10E048C; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:38:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thenybble.de (lvps87-230-95-74.dedicated.hosteurope.de [87.230.95.74]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A824E048C for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:38:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mnch-4d0431e7.pool.mediaways.net ([77.4.49.231] helo=localhost) by thenybble.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JaoNu-0000RN-7S for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:38:26 +0100 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:38:04 +0100 From: Jan Seeger To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo Message-ID: <20080316083804.GA12745@venus> References: <20080314135242.2070d995@pascal.spore.ath.cx> <21D3AB88-C36A-4BF1-8FB2-C2F40C3992B5@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21D3AB88-C36A-4BF1-8FB2-C2F40C3992B5@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 4e6ef39b-e79c-40e2-bb12-af3b378d6af8 X-Archives-Hash: 61abff1d81d4bfaedbc762f895899fce --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 16. Mar, Stroller spammed my inbox with=20 >> >> Well, I've heard otherwise. Use jffs2 or the CF card will wear out >> prematurely....... > > I've "heard" lots about using flashdrives for filesystems, but I've never= =20 > read on a mailing list anything actually definitive on the subject. I fin= d=20 > many posts to be confused. Yeah, it's the same here. I read an article in the german computer magazine= c't, and they said that they have tried to break USB sticks with repeated writes= , but have never succeeded (I think they ran 10000 writes, but I could be wrong). So why not just buy a cheap USB stick for 10 =A4 (or whatever), mount it sy= nc and write a little script which writes to a file, deletes it and begins again. = Have it record the number of times the file was written and check the consistency after every write (md5sum perhaps?). Leave it running for a (long?) time and then you will probably encounter errors (if there are...). Actually, this sounds interesting^^ Regards, Jan --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH3NxrMmLQdC6jvocRAs3KAJ0UG8uQ+V3uSIajzWzXmxKo8bE7yACdHUmo MmGBKZXeFmCr9l9wARrKWLk= =hiAz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list