Re: [Staffslug] Filesystems
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:50:50 +0100
From: Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Staffslug] Filesystems
I also have to think about the compact flash drive. It's mentioned
often (and I did know but it had passed to the back of my memory) that
solid state drives only have a limited number of read write accesses.
So, I will need to keep those down (noatime me thinks).
I'm reasonably sure that it's only really writes, not reads, that wear out
solid state drives. At work we supply/support Linux-based firewalls that
run off a CF card, with a hard drive for logging etc. The CF card only
gets written to occasionally (changing iptables rules etc) but presumably
gets read a lot. We don't have a lot of failures of either hard drives or
CF cards.
Russ