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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

  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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