On 29/08/11 00:03, green wrote:
Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-27 08:50 -0500:I don't imagine upgrading will make much difference - the controller distributes the writes evenly, for which reason I reserve 25% of space when installing (instead of the default 10%). NOTE: I could be wrong about that - I'm just guessing.Hmm, that reserves 25% for root use only, something that occurs above the filesystem level.
Is that a specific area that's reserved - or just an amount of space kept free for root?
So probably you are giving up 25% of the space and gaining nothing.
In this instance the install used is less than 300MB, and it's unusual for me to have more than 1GB on the stick - so I'm not giving up anything. The stick is used to move my configs and an OS, not to ferry data - I use the tubes for that.
And the default is 5% according to mke2fs(8).
That would be a guessing I warned of. ;-pCurrently I use ext3 which has (major) fragmentation problems when it runs short on space (90-95% of space) - especially when used for lots of frequent, small writes as it is. My concern was/is that fragmentation would shorten the lifespan - another reason to move to ext4.
NOTE: when I first created the sticks I was expecting 6 month lifetimes based on the pessimistic estimates people were making at the time. It was only later I realised those estimates didn't allow for how the controllers distribute writes.
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