From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 6 01:02:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56F616A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 01:02:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F1F843D39 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 01:02:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 22363 invoked by uid 0); 6 Sep 2004 01:02:28 -0000 Received: from user-69-73-60-132.knology.net (HELO ?10.0.0.68?) (69.73.60.132) by smtp2.knology.net with SMTP; 6 Sep 2004 01:02:28 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <413B8C5F.4000800@ec.rr.com> References: <413B8C5F.4000800@ec.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <6E1002B7-FFA0-11D8-BEA4-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Kelly Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:02:31 -0500 To: FreeBSD_Questions FreeBSD_Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: Re: sandisk sd 256MB freebsd install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 01:02:40 -0000 On Sep 5, 2004, at 4:59 PM, jason wrote: > Checking http://www.simpletech.com/flash/flash_prox.php will show > reliability of write/erase endurance at 100,000 cycles. For data > storage and just reading 1s and 0s flash lasts a very long time. Just > don't write to them as a swap file or you could kill it real quick. Also add "noatime" to your CF partitions in /etc/fstab. There is no point in recording the latest access time in the file inodes each time a file is used. As with HD's, CF media keeps spare blocks and transparently swaps out bad for new when they wear or start failing. So in use do not expect failures to start gradually. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.