From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MUigi-0002SP-Bi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:57:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53FB3E0292; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:57:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340BEE0292 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:57:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39ED64E23 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:57:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.039 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.039 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.440, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Fnw5ZObqZ1-u for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFAA166FBA for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:57:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MUigQ-0007tV-7s for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:57:10 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-178-157.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.178.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:57:10 +0000 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-178-157.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:57:10 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:56:57 -0700 Message-ID: References: <5f14cf5e0907220809ud14a99dq81950fba1c45b495@mail.gmail.com> <7bef1f890907241943k7c6a6fckb79a90816cae280f@mail.gmail.com> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-178-157.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2pre) Gecko/20090725 Shredder/3.0b4pre In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890907241943k7c6a6fckb79a90816cae280f@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 53de8c94-d45d-48a3-a1c1-0c2c0dc62237 X-Archives-Hash: f2b2107f17d75cbaf943d59a3c26f7eb On 07/24/2009 07:43 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > ...I am using a flash drive as a cache, so to speak... I recently learned that flash drives wear out after about 10,000 write operations, which came as an unpleasant surprise. Just be aware that you are drastically shortening the life of a flash drive by writing to it frequently. (or so I've read)