From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Canonical way to configure permanent remote cpu access
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:02:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <431233d5eb4f63327435f03f0346b54d@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0531d6e6b6997c360d96d62a355b7cea@hamnavoe.com>
>> My immediate concern with the PI is that it's going to get into
>> trouble, eventually, with CF memory.
>
> The pi has no built-in flash at all; its normal non-volatile storage
> is a plug-in SD card. I think the wear-levelling on these is sufficient
> that you can run a normal fossil file system for quite a while before
> it wears out. And if it does wear out, you just plug in a new one.
That's good to know. Back here in the sticks such information arrives
slowly in horse-drawn carriages like 9fans :-)
I don't remember how I managed to keep up to date, or when the
slipping back started. Probably when my friends started leaving South
Africa back in the 1990s.
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-10 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-10 9:37 Luke Evans
2012-12-10 10:12 ` lucio
2012-12-10 11:30 ` Richard Miller
2012-12-10 11:38 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-12-10 11:53 ` Richard Miller
2012-12-10 12:02 ` lucio [this message]
2012-12-10 15:41 ` Anthony Sorace
2012-12-10 16:47 ` Bakul Shah
2012-12-11 5:43 ` hiro
2012-12-10 11:23 ` Richard Miller
2012-12-11 9:36 ` [9fans] Canonical way to configure permanent remote Luke Evans
2012-12-11 12:21 ` Richard Miller
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