On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 22:12 -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote: > What it means is that Flash memory cells wear out after a large number > of read/write cycles, but not nearly as large as hard drives: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_rom#Limitations . So using Flash in > place of RAM, even when high speed isn't important, can wear out the > Flash - it will probably wear out even before HDs, which live less long > than does RAM. Until the Flash wears out, it is extremely reliable, and > techniques for ensuring it doesn't destroy data as it wears out are > built into the Flash HW (though it will eventually wear out take data > with it). > > But I'm not talking about using the Flash as RAM, just using it for a > low-load persistent store like a HD, where a HD would be overkill in > every way.
I thought flash waers out on writing, not reading... So, keep /tmp,/var/log and its friends on ram-disk, or pass the logging you don't want to loose via a remote syslog, a remote mysql-server (or via nfs-mount). (For running servers I keep /usr and /opt mounted as read-only, to avoid accidental writing) -- pgp-id: 926EBB12 pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org) _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users