On Saturday 10 July 2010 08:00:31 Juiceman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:56 AM, pineapple <pineapplecow...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Has anyone tried running freenet off an SD card or thumb drive? Is the > > speed > > sufficient for freenet? > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > chat mailing list > > chat@freenetproject.org > > Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general > > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat > > Or mailto:chat-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > > > > Emailing this again because I forgot to CC the mailinglist.... > > Freenet's usage pattern does not lend itself to flash SSDs or SD cards > due to the large number of small, random access writes. > Freenet is extremely hard on disks, many a regular hard drive has > succumbed to it. > > It *will* wear any flash device out much quicker than normally a user would. > > That being said, a very conservative node, configured to use only a > few max peers and a small datastore, logging turned completely off, > only used for small downloads, browsing and inserting a few small > files (for example a thumb drive you could take with you somewhere, > post a blog or upload some important document and go back offline > shortly thereafter) "might" be feasible. You would want to use one > with fast specifications and don't expect too much... > > If you try this, let us know how it works out.
Also it's good to point out that modern flash disks with proper wear levelling will do fine with Freenet. But this is likely not true of cheap, small, slow portable storage devices such as SD cards.
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