Jan Stary wrote:
On May 21 16:28:32, John Rowe wrote:
On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 11:25 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
If you check usb flash stick packaging, it may say guaranteed for a
1000 writes which is marketing crypto speech for, sectors may fail after
1000 writes.
However, the root partion is not often written to so presumably I could
have / on the USB stick and swap, /var, /usr, /tmp et al. on a mirrored
pair?
You could also have everything on the USB stick,
and possibly also STFU while you are at it,
because it's a non-issue.
=)
you could run with *two* usb sticks in each of your *two* redundant
embedded machines that each have *two* power supplies.
the only single point of epic fail in this configuration is this thread.