On 16 April 2007, Thomas Tuttle wrote: > On April 16 at 06:46 EDT, Alan McKinnon hastily scribbled: > > On Friday 13 April 2007, Ryan Sims wrote: > > > On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > hello, > > > > I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my > > > > hard-disk. > > > > Uninformed idiots who tell you total garbage like that ought to be shot. > > No, they ought to be hung, drawn, quartered and their corpses hung out > > on a stick to be picked clean by crows. > > I apologize for butting in, but this is actually possible if you are > using a Flash memory medium, such as a CompactFlash card or a USB pen > drive, for the filesystem containing Portage. It is true, as you said, > that syncing often will cause no harm to a "normal" hard disk.
Same as *any* writing activity. So no, this doesn't count as "emerge --sync huts the harddisk". ;-) > > > Seriously, I spend half my days on support debunking just this kind of > > twaddle. > > ...and scaring off users who passed it (probably just because they > misunderstood or misinterpreted something) by replying like this. Alan was quite right. As I said in and earlier response: Emerge --sync hurts your harddrive as much as driving your car hurts your tyres. Uwe -- The Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
