Re: run debian off usb flash drive
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:28, Goswin von Brederlow
<brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> > drive, the flash device can take about 250 block erase cycles/day in a
>
> And you get one every 3 seconds on some blocks. Thats 28800 a day.
> Thats atime updates for you. One should be carefull setting that up.
If you use ext2, ext3, or some similar block and Inode based file system on a
flash device with no wear-levelling layer in between then you are doing
everything wrong.
Some (most?) of the flash hardware that looks like an ATA disk or similar has
it's own wear levelling, so although ext2/ext3 writes the same Inode block
repeatedly it's really going to different parts of the storage. Even so
mounting noatime is the best thing to do.
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