Has anyone ever tried to kill a flash disk by building an FFS on it and writing to it repeatedly?
Also, is there a way to have the filesystem keep track of the number of writes that have occured since creation? Or, alternatively, a way to count them from boot or mount? Jack On 7/15/05, knitti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/15/05, David M. N. Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not acording to SAN Disk's documentation. > > > > http://www.sandisk.com/pdf/oem/cf-manual-10.8.pdf > > > > They have 1,000,000 Hours MTBF. That's ~114 years. (Page 8) > > http://www.sandisk.com/industrial/cf-specs.asp > > they claim 3M hours MTBF and 2M cycles. > > just take a 256 mb card, do a standard install and make the same > modifictions as done in flashdist (tmp, var is mfs, some /dev things > are on mfs) and you can mount the cf card r/o. you can > link -s /var/db/packages (which is in mfs) back to the installed /var/db > in the cf card, and can use pkg_* tools to install additional stuff > after mount -o rw,noatime / . after everthing is done mount -o ro /, > voila, > you got a very easy maintainable and long lasting system. > > sync your logs to the cf card every day, do this with spamdb too, if > you like, it should work. > > > --knitti
