From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 24 8:47:18 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 A10C937B407 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:47:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from milan.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (milan.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1815543E72 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@unixpages.org) Received: from gondor.middleearth (gondor.middleearth [192.168.1.42]) by milan.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE05A91E; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:46:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by gondor.middleearth (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0B71955F3; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:53:17 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:53:17 +0000 From: Christian Brueffer To: Ceri Davies Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for comments on a sentence in the solid-state article Message-ID: <20020724175317.GC358@unixpages.org> References: <20020724140036.GB358@unixpages.org> <20020724122831.GB20946@idoru.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020724122831.GB20946@idoru.mine.nu> 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 01:28:31PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > 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 > Looks good to me. - Christian -- http://www.unixpages.org chris@unixpages.org GPG Pub-Key : www.unixpages.org/cbrueffer.asc GPG Fingerprint: 0DB5 8563 2473 C72A A8D1 56EA DAD2 B05D 5F3C 3185 GPG Key ID : DAD2B05D5F3C3185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message