At 15:18 04/10/2005 -0700, Lan Barnes wrote: >I recall Tracy or someone mentioning a parameter fro the mount line in >fstab for a thumb drive. The idea was to disable periodic access to save >on the drive's limited lifetime of I/O accesses. > >I looked at man mount and didn't find anything that looked right. Am I >dreaming this?
It might have been me talking about the noatime option. Flash memory has a limited number of writes. One of the things that Unix-like filesystems do is keep track of when a file is accessed, and writes that information to the i-node. This produces a write for every file read, which can kill your flash device in a hurry. Make the flash device mount with the noatime option to prevent writing just because of an access. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
