From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 24 13:13:25 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 40FE937B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:13:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC04843E65 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:13:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from sdn-ar-003dcwashp243.dialsprint.net ([206.133.15.133] helo=moo.holy.cow) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17XSVc-0000bW-00; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:13:21 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0F34350CC2; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:15:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:15:55 -0400 From: parv To: Ceri Davies Cc: Christian Brueffer , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for comments on a sentence in the solid-state article Message-ID: <20020724201555.GA17045@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Christian Brueffer , freebsd-doc@freebsd.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> 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 in message <20020724122831.GB20946@idoru.mine.nu>, wrote Ceri Davies thusly... > > 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. how about replacing " -" w/ ";" in any of the above two versions... You should always remount those filesystems read-only when you are with any maintenance; unnecessary writes to the flash media considerably shorten it's lifespan. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message