Just for a data point, I've been running Debian etch on my NSLU2 for nearly 2 years of continuous service on the same 1 GB SanDisk USB stick partitioned with a 128MB swap partition and an ext3 root partition. I have not had any problems due to flash wear out. I've been using the Slug as a file server, sometimes bittorrent client, and web server. It often needs to write to swap. I had expected it to have problems by now, but it keeps on ticking.
-Geoff On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Glockenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hello, > for testing I have used an 3.5"-HD, but if lenny becomes stable, > I will use a device which consumes less energy. > I would prefer a USB-Stick, but what I read about wear levelling > I do not really understand. If I have a swap partion on it, will the > swapping on the partition lead to writing on areas all over the disk > or all over the partition? Swapping in my current system uses 7-10MB > and I am not able to reduce it further. So is an USB-Stick possible > or should I prefer the 2.5"-HD? But I still have a problem with my > current hard disk (the problem with spinning up and down and the > system not working at the end of the boot process, which I reported > here some time before, what happens two times), but today after > the boot something new happened. Some time before there was > a beep sound added to the init scripts, and today the slug started > an endless beep, stopping the beep if I press the front button, > continues the beep if I stopped pressing it. Strange, what happened > to the hd now happens with the sound device. So the question > is, how can I decide something to avoid this behaviour and is the > type of the device important here? > Regards Michael > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
