I have been following this thread intermittantly and have not seen a comment on the following:
I believe that writing a file to a single location is not the way to do this: you need to write a byte to the usb key in the same location, but need to ensure it continually changes: perhaps rotating 1's/0's. Alternatively, the concern is that the FAT/inode table or the like is where the most wear will occur - perhaps concentrate there? (i.e., do a journelled FS like reiserfs with a fast update? Do any USB keys do some kind of write minimisation in the controller? - no change in the data/no write? - seems a logical way to extend the life? BillK On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 19:03 +0100, Jan Seeger wrote: > As a followup, I have actually written said script (in perl), and would > welcome -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
