On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:14:43PM -0400, tai viinikka wrote: > Thanks, Lennart for answering, and Peter for raising a question that > troubles me. I run a whole box from an SD card. > (But I have NFS and a NAS for anything that will be frequently > written. **If I know about it**.) > > Because I followed Martin Michlmayr's instructions for installing on > my new Sheevaplug, I have my root partition as Ext2. I also took the > initiative (based on a very little understanding) of mounting stuff > with "noatime". Do either of these factors help? > > Any other recommendations or thoughts, assuming Lennart's worst-case > is true and my card doesn't implement wear levelling? > (Assume I do good backups and a 4-8 GB SD card is cheap by my standards.)
Well I would be VERY surprised if Sandisk doesn't do good wear leveling. Their compact flash cards have excellent wear leveling as far as I know. Of course this is SD. Now whether the 'for wii' means anything I don't know. Could they have made some assumptions about usage patterns based on it being used in a Wii? No idea. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
