Wear leveling. Second UFD for occasional backup. Am I missing something, or does Portage only *write* to the database when you're [em,un]merging? If so, I don't see that there's much to worry about, even if you *are* running pure ~x86, and using overlays, like I am.
The only real drawback I see is that UFDs are sufficiently stupid -- thanks, USB standards committee! -- that there's no way to interrogate them to get a report on sector wear. On Feb 15, 2008 5:06 PM, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alois Hammer wrote: > > Suggestion: put your Portage and database trees on flash storage. > > There is no way I would do that or recommend it to anyone. Those devices > have a very, very short life if written to frequently. Portage isn't a > big problem because an emerge --sync will restore it - but database > trees? You have to be kidding. > > > Be lucky, > > Neil > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
