On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 04:30:48PM -0700, Gus Wirth wrote: > 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
That was it. Thanks. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
