From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 24 5:28:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF49D37B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 05:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from idoru.mine.nu (pc2-cdif1-5-cust176.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.3.217.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D2443E31 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 05:28:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@idoru.mine.nu) Received: from setantae by idoru.mine.nu with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 17XLFn-0005SH-00; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:28:31 +0100 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:28:31 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Christian Brueffer Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for comments on a sentence in the solid-state article Message-ID: <20020724122831.GB20946@idoru.mine.nu> References: <20020724140036.GB358@unixpages.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020724140036.GB358@unixpages.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 02:00:36PM +0000, Christian Brueffer said: > Hi, > > I found the following sentence in the solid-state article, section 6.3: > > You should always remount those filesystems read-only when you are > done with any maintenance - it is dangerous to leave them in > read-write mode lest a process begin logging or otherwise writing > regularly to the flash media and wearing it out over time. > > The part after the '-' is very unclear and should be fixed. I've thought > about it some time, but couldn't find something better. Perhaps: You should always remount those filesystems read-only when you are done with any maintenance - unnecessary writes to the flash media could considerably shorten it's lifespan. People reading this article are presumably familiar with this "feature" of flash cards, so perhaps we can afford to brief here. Ceri To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message