USB drive on server?

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Oct 24 07:46:23 UTC 2007


Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 16:32 -0700, Ted Marshall wrote:
>> The result is that the flash drive will burn out much faster than the 
>> statistics quoted.  How much faster, I am unable to compute.  It may
>> still be adequate for your needs.  I don't know. 
> 
> You could pick a cheapie and deliberately try to kill it off.  A friend
> of mine killed one off very rapidly by using it for his web browser
> cache.  ;-)
> 
> Depending on how you use your computer, you could try using it for some
> of /var, or /tmp, to grind it hard.
> 

Some years ago, someone on one of these lists - probably back in 
Valhalla's time, reported clobbering his cf first time he used it.

Folk surmised it was because it was automounted with the sync option, 
preventing writes from being cached.





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John

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