On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 05:20:18PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > If your filesystem lives on some form of flash (SSD, SD card, USB > stick, ...) this can reduce the lifetime and performance of your > hardware. > > The wear-levelling firmware of the drive will think that every block of > the drive is "live" (contains valuable information). This will increase > "write amplification". > > In any case, if you do do this, be sure to use fstrim afterwards. (I'm > not sure that SD cards and USB sticks support trim.
I think the idea was to do it on the image loop back mounted, not on the original device. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
