From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: David Lethe <david@santools.com>
Cc: berk walker <berk@panix.com>, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
Greg Cormier <gcormier@gmail.com>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sleeping hard drives in an array?
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 12:19:26 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481C200E.60907@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A20315AE59B5C34585629E258D76A97C335968@34093-C3-EVS3.exchange.rackspace.com>
David Lethe wrote:
[]
> USB for root??
> Bad bad bad bad idea .. unless you get the industrial flash memory. The
> typical max number of writes for consumer-grade USB flashdrives is
> around 25,000 ... but the low end of the range is 10,000 writes.
Why do you think root filesystem will be written that often?
Here, / is mounted read-only.. And it changes only when you
change some configs...
So, root (and /usr) are ok for flash. Just don't put /dev on it
(udev/whatever works), and don't put volatile filesystems like
/var there too.
/mjt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-03 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 15:02 Sleeping hard drives in an array? Greg Cormier
2008-05-01 8:52 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2008-05-01 9:55 ` David Greaves
2008-05-02 21:11 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-05-02 22:11 ` berk walker
2008-05-02 22:44 ` David Lethe
2008-05-03 8:19 ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2008-05-03 15:29 ` David Lethe
2008-05-03 15:48 ` Brad Campbell
2008-05-05 0:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-05-05 0:12 ` Greg Cormier
2008-05-09 13:20 ` Bill Davidsen
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