On 2026-08-12 17:30, Brian Conway wrote:
One thing that might be causing disturbances is that I want
to put /var and /tmp on MFS, because it is said that constant
effort put on an SSD disk might corrupt it faster. This is
actually a question in its own right that I should ask as well:
Is it a better practice with today's system and materials to
put /var, /tmp and maybe others on virtual memory instead of
disk ? Especially for a server that might run 24/7 ?
I can't speak to the errors you're getting (because I don't think you
included them?),
That's right, I haven't included the errors since this would have
required me to film my screen and upload a video. (And even with that, I
didn't run into the same errors once I re-installed with the default
partitionning anyway). From my (somewhat) extensive research I believe
the failure is actually due to an oversized root partition, that
apparently corrupts the heap memory of the bootloader. I'll try a custom
layout again formatting a < 8GB root partition.
but given that the SSD you're using is a Samsung SSD 870 and not
something generic/noname/garbage, I would not put the effort into
moving paritions onto mfs in an attempt to protect disk writes. And I
say that as someone that enjoys slinging around mfs mounts.
Really, even for a 24/7 server ? I might do that then, as it reduces the
hassle.
--
Sylvain Saboua
looking for a PDP-11
