On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I suspect your flash drive is failing. This is why I do not > recommend _building_ on a (usb) flash drive. As I wrote a few hours > ago on lfs-support, building in a regular filesystem on a commodity > flash drive causes a lot of writes - all solid-state drives have a > limited number of writes, using conventional filesystems uses up a > chunk of those writes, compiling uses a lot more. > > How can the consequences of a failing drive appear so regularly and precisely? I thought that as a solid state drive fails, the available space becomes smaller and smaller as bad sectors appear. And the capacity has noticeable decreased from the original 4 GB, it is now around 3.7. If it means anything, running the config.status script with the debug flag leaves a temporary directory intact. In there are several files with STUFF in them. Perhaps they are not properly copied to where they are supposed to go (Makefile etc.)? > LOL - my monthly script to archive my email broke at the new year, > a change in the format of 'date' between LFS-7.1 and 7.2 : but it > _ought_ to have failed well before that, so perhaps there is indeed > something odd about this new year ;-) > I've been having all sorts of weird problems. I am having trouble accessing the lfs (and blfs) support archives). Clicking on the link flashes a quick message about a redirect not working and takes me to linuxfromscratch.org. Is this a problem on my end or has the link mysteriously broken?
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