Re: [GTALUG] long war story: growing the ESP (/boot/efi)

2021-07-14 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2021-07-14 11:47 a.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > Consumer grade flash often only has 1 write cycles. Especially if > it isn't expected to be updated very much. Different price point. Can confirm from annoying experience that these QSPI flash chips really don't have many write

Re: [GTALUG] long war story: growing the ESP (/boot/efi)

2021-07-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 09:49:30AM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > Years ago I worked on an avionics project where we were storing data in an > NVRAM. > We had to write code to manage the wear-out in the cells and if I remember > correctly the wear-out was in the hundreds of thousands to milli

Re: [GTALUG] long war story: growing the ESP (/boot/efi)

2021-07-14 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
On 2021-07-13 8:11 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 10:21:07AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Really? That's terrible. I often update UEFI settings. Do you have a source for this? I can't find any. There was a bug that made NVRAM read only on some sy