That's exactly right (the "few writes" part, not the
"knowing what I'm doing" part): this particular machine only
runs reports a few times a day.
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Eamon Daly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Kirchhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Eamon Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <mysql@lists.mysql.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: "tmpdir" option
Eamon Daly schrieb:
We've been considering the
purchase of a flash drive as a temporary disk for some of
our larger reports, but on occassion we'll run a Very Large
Report that would easily overrun the smaller disk.
Eamon,
flash drives have a limited number of possible writes, I would not
use a flashdrive for anything like swap/cache/log/tmp...
except you know what you are doing and only have few writes?
Jan
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