> >The thing that finally canned the BB for me was the short SD card life. > > Even though the implementation uses a virtualized root file system, it > >still writes to the SD card about once a second. The result is that > >even industrial grade SD cards rarely live over a year. With the Black > >they tried to address the problem by putting some NAND memory on board > >but that only prolongs the problem and with components that are not > >easily changed. > > I've only ever had one SD card go dead on me on my entire fleet, and I > suspect that was actually my fault, not Debian's :)
Recent Linux kernels (3.8) have a new filesystem called 'f2fs'. This is a logging filesystem: it appends data instead of overwriting (and does a flush if the fs gets full). This should increase the lifespan. I have a couple (6) of raspberry pi's (pies?) using this filesystem and indeed it seems to help. Folkert van Heusden -- Multitail est un outil permettant la visualisation de fichiers de journalisation et/ou le suivi de l'exécution de commandes. Filtrage, mise en couleur de mot-clé, fusions, visualisation de différences (diff-view), etc. http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
