>>> > I was thinking to let my firewall
>>> > run on a CF drive. The last one served for 10years, so ...
>>> Your firewall can probably run with near-0 writes (or even with exactly
>>> 0 writes), so your CF will easily last centuries.
>> Especially if you can use a syslogd on another machine.
Or u
Richard Hector wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 21:38 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> > I was thinking to let my firewall
>> > run on a CF drive. The last one served for 10years, so ...
>>
>> Your firewall can probably run with near-0 writes (or even with exactly
>> 0 writes), so your CF will easil
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 21:38 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I was thinking to let my firewall
> > run on a CF drive. The last one served for 10years, so ...
>
> Your firewall can probably run with near-0 writes (or even with exactly
> 0 writes), so your CF will easily last centuries.
Especially
>>> an issue with the flash drives is their life cycle. they support about
>>> 10 writes or so in average - there was article I read recently
>> For large enough drives, 10 writes will take several years
>> of constant write access. So I wouldn't worry about it.
> Well several years is not
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> an issue with the flash drives is their life cycle. they support about
>> 10 writes or so in average - there was article I read recently
>
> For large enough drives, 10 writes will take several years
> of constant write access. So I wouldn't worry about it.
>
>
> an issue with the flash drives is their life cycle. they support about
> 10 writes or so in average - there was article I read recently
For large enough drives, 10 writes will take several years
of constant write access. So I wouldn't worry about it.
Stefan
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> PS: typically flash memory is made up of "eraseblocks" that are much
> larger than a disk block, so depending on the way your flash key works,
> writing a single block (512bytes) of your disk may end up doing "read
> the surrounding eraseblock; erase it, rewrite it with
>> So, yes, unplugging your USB key while it's still mounted is to be
>> avoided, and even more so while it's being written to.
> The OP asked about about a USB external HDD, not a key. I have not
> tested the theory, but I have always understood that keys are
> particularly vulnerable. To phy
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 March 2009 17:43:33 Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>> I have not tested the
>>> theory, but I have always understood that keys are particularly
>>> vulnerable. To physical damage if pulled out prematurely, not just damage
>>> to the filesystem.
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 17:43:33 Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > I have not tested the
> > theory, but I have always understood that keys are particularly
> > vulnerable. To physical damage if pulled out prematurely, not just damage
> > to the filesystem.
>
> Why so?
As I say
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> I have not tested the
> theory, but I have always understood that keys are particularly vulnerable.
> To physical damage if pulled out prematurely, not just damage to the
> filesystem.
Why so?
Johannes
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On Wednesday 11 March 2009 17:15:44 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> So, yes, unplugging your USB key while it's still mounted is to be
> avoided, and even more so while it's being written to.
The OP asked about about a USB external HDD, not a key. I have not tested the
theory, but I have always understo
> The message doesn't -tell- you what to do, but what I think one should
> do is plug in the USB drive again and do fsck on the device. When fsck
> runs, in immediately reruns the journal and fixes metadata
> inconsistencies.
Mounting the device would have done the same thing (even if mounted
read
On 2009-03-09_11:19:38, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Does anyone here power off their computer without first shutting it down?
> > Maybe, but after having to spend time repairing the system and/or rebuilding
> > it or losing data they most likely don't anymore.
>
> Even if you're careful, you'll stil
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