Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 22:21:30 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > > > Incorrect. Flash memory only has a limited write lifetime, treating it > > > like a hard drive will kill it in no time. > > > > Yup. Like in three years or so... I've dropped both floppies and CD-RW > > discs in favor of pendrives (1GB) > > more like three months if you put a frequently written directory, > like /tmp or /var/log, on a flash device.
You can use UNIONFS for those ;) Anyway, unless we're talking about different technologies, one of my USB drives is working fine and it is more than a year old. And I've used it like crazy (both read _and_ writes.) > BTW you have PGP signed your email but your key doesn't appears to be on > the keyservers. Oops. The signature was supposed to be used for private mail messages only. I don't trust keyservers. My apologies to everyone! Regards, -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 / 15-4190-6344 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
