FFS isn't a journaling filesystem so any 'wear', even on primitive flash storage, won't be enough to worry about.
-- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Fri, 31 May 2019, at 03:41, sove...@vivaldi.net wrote: > 30 May, 2019 > > Greetings OpenBSD aficionados, > > As a newbie to OpenBSD, I am delighted to have the chance to interact > with the OpenBSD Mailing Lists community. > Since I am about to install OpenBSD 6.5 (amd64) on a USB Flash Drive for > the first time, I was wondering if anyone has a solution to the > following conundrum. > > In order to minimize wear on the USB Flash memory, is there a way to > command OpenBSD to always run in RAM, and at shutdown to either save or > not save the session to the USB Flash Drive. > > For instance, Precise Puppy Linux 5.7.1 has a package called Puppy Event > Manager. Since Precise Puppy is programmed to run in RAM, you can select > the 'Save Session' tab and enter the span of minutes for everything in > RAM to be saved to the Precise Puppy SaveFile. > > Best of all, you can enter 0 minutes to only do a save at shutdown. > Perfect for minimizing wear on a USB Flash Drive. > > Please accept my apologies if this issue has already been solved. My > search so far in sites like https://marc.info has come up empty. > > I thank you for your support. > > Best regards, > Hugh > >
