Re: [9fans] Throwing in the Towel

2024-05-29 Thread wb . kloke
> i'm curious what straightforward storage structure wouldn't be. trying to > second-guess ssd firmware seems a tricky design criterion. > Designing for minimal disk stress: Never rewrite data already written to disk. Now we have big and quite cheap main memory.  I don't critisize the

Re: [9fans] Throwing in the Towel

2024-05-29 Thread hiro
> Finally,. SSDs just die over time. i can confirm. > Keep backups. i just hope i will be able to restore them, too. i'm too lazy to check every year if stuff is still readable, and i fear it will wear out the heads anyways ;) most recent interesting read:

Re: [9fans] Throwing in the Towel

2024-05-29 Thread Steve Simon
i can only speak from experience, but i have had fossil and venti running on a single ssd (on a radpberry pi) for 5 years now - no rotating discs left at home. i have mtime changes and ephemeral snapshots turned off to reduce the update rate. i chose a sandisk card, and take backups just in