On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 07:27:03PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:31:27 +0100 > > Regarding eliminating the journal, you bring up a good point. But so > did some other people arguing the opposite. I suggest an installation > that gives the following choices: > > * Don't use a journal > * Use a journal but keep it on an always-connected spinning rust drive > * Use a journal on the SSD or SD card > > My suggestion is that the installer be clear about the tradeoffs when > SSD or SD card are involved, and also ask you whether you want to > fstrim manually or by cron. From what I understand, putting fstrim in > /etc/fstab is always a bad idea. Also, the installer could remind the > user to delete or archive to spinning rust files not needed, to > preserve free space on the SSD or SD card. > > I'm thinking of using an Rpi as a poor man's laptop, because I've had > too many laptops go bad from spilled drinks and other keyboard > destroying mistakes. So I'd have an attached 2.5 inch USB spinning > rust. So I could bind mount (I love bind mounts) part of my spinning > rust to /var very early in the boot. > > But then I might use another Rpi as an experimental thing, and perhaps > shut off journaling to save the memory card. Or perhaps install a big > honking memory card, log rotate ruthlessly, and fstrim every day.
Memory cards aren't what they used to be. I remember adding a memory card to an ancient PC to upgrade it from 128K to 649K -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng