On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Klaus Botschen wrote:
Writing into /dev, /tmp and /var would definitely NOT "destroy the CF
card".
Might be. I used none-industrial-grade CF cards, so the chance is of course
higher.
Yes, I did it. Just let /var run full and try to log a lot of stuff and
you will write the same sector many times in a short period. Lead to an
unusable /var partition on a consumer SanDisk CF Card. The card was
pretty old, but I guess that there are a lot of low price CF cards out
there that have no real wear level algorithm implemented.
running for about half a year now, with all filesystems being regular
Thats fine. The machines that got replaced by the Alix board have been running
for almost 5 years, and I hope that I don't need to touch the boards for
several years.
Putting /var on mfs is not such a bad idea if you got RAM to spare.
Using rsync to write the changed files back on the CF card in fixed
intervals and on shutdown should be ok.
- just using noatime is fine; should the card die one day, new CF cards
will be cheaper than a fart by then (and eight times as big, too).
That might depend... I have the theory that if you are sysadmin, the
machines "feel" when you are far away, and die exactly when you can't just
drop in and repair them :)
Nice theory, would explain some hardware faults I witnessed in the past
:)
Kind regards,
Markus
