* Markus Hennecke <markus-henne...@markus-hennecke.de> [2009-04-17 14:42]: > Henning Brauer wrote: >> * Markus Hennecke <markus-henne...@markus-hennecke.de> [2009-04-17 08:06]: >>> Marco Peereboom schrieb: >>>> I work with people that run io tools against flash parts. I still have >>>> to see it fail too. Your puny little firewall will never write more to >>>> it than a month long stress test. This write fatigue argument is very >>>> silly. >>> Generalization is always false. >>> I killed a 1GB SanDisk CF Card because of excessive logging of >>> OpenVPN Connections from WLAN Clients which unfortunately had power >>> saving enabled and dropped the connection every few minutes. Took me >>> around 2 or 3 weeks, I just forgot to reduce the log level. Perhaps >>> those stress tests are not stressing enough? That Card was a little >>> bit older, but seldom used, so there is a good chance that that >>> scenario no longer applies. >> >> and I bet it didn't die because of the excessive writes but something >> else. And until you show me proof that all reserve cells were mapped >> in and in use I cannot be convinced of the opposite. > > Tell me how I can show this. I got the card in a drawer around.
I dunno wether that info can be gotten from the device without knowing internal details -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
