2009/4/16 Bob Beck <b...@obtuse.com>: >> I have a t5xxx also and want to do the same, but if I use usb flash (tried >> and worked fine), how to limit at max disk writes ? so the flash can live >> longer ... > > Please let me know if you find an answer to this question. I have all these > openbsd machines booking off hard drives, and I'm trying to find a way to > limit the writes, so my hard drives can live longer.
Mounting things like /tmp on large ramdisks and using generous write-behind caching? It may not make your machine any quicker, or save you any money, or make things easier to administer, or decrease the risk of data loss; in fact it may do the opposite; but then, you didn't ask about any of these points... :-P It's probably always possible to somewhat improve a single metric if you ignore the potentially catastrophic impact on everything else. ;-)
