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From: Harri Haataja <realblades@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup?
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:34:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD8V-zCOrpJvbL6h1xe-u4ddOjNgA_+3TSiB_DzVebT6zcOhTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tx1unctg.fsf@athene.hamartun.priv.no>

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On 19 Nov 2014 23:54, "Tom Ivar Helbekkmo" <tih@hamartun.priv.no> wrote:
> Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> writes:
>
> > After a bit less than a year, the SD card suffered a catastrophic
> > failure.  When I say catastrophic, I mean I can't find any meaningful
> > data anywhere in the first 120MB or so of /dev/sdM0/data ... just
> > not-quite-random looking garbage.
>
> Could have been just the normal "SD card used up" situation.  They don't
> last forever, and to get a reasonable life time you have to a) not buy
> too cheap, and b) not write to it more than you have to.  Under Unix,
> point b means mounting with noatime and nodiratime options.
>
> Some specifics here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling

Raspi in particular also seems to be very sensitive to power quality. Often
the symptom of overloaded power supply is a crash and an unbootable SD card.

Frequent backups of the card are probably a good idea in any case.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-21  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-18 13:29 Mayuresh Kathe
2014-11-18 13:53 ` dante
2014-11-18 14:11   ` Richard Miller
2014-11-18 14:28     ` dante
2014-11-27 20:57     ` Dante
2014-11-28  6:10       ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-28  6:54         ` David du Colombier
2014-11-28  8:42           ` Dante
2014-11-28  9:12             ` Mats Olsson
2014-11-28  9:18               ` Dante
2014-11-28  9:17           ` Richard Miller
2014-11-28  9:26             ` Dante
2014-11-28 13:20             ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-28 13:45               ` David du Colombier
2014-11-18 15:42   ` Kurt H Maier
2014-11-18 16:14     ` dante
2014-11-18 17:02       ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-11-18 20:29         ` Richard Miller
2014-11-18 21:28           ` Mats Olsson
2014-11-18 22:09             ` dante
2014-11-19  8:56               ` Mats Olsson
2014-11-26 17:16               ` Mats Olsson
2014-11-26 17:41                 ` Dante
2014-11-26 17:56                   ` Mats Olsson
2014-11-26 18:16                     ` Mats Olsson
2014-11-26 18:41                       ` Dante
2014-11-18 22:11           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-11-18 22:23             ` Steve Simon
2014-11-19  1:57             ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-19  5:36               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-11-19  5:59                 ` lucio
2014-11-19 14:36                   ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-19 15:34                     ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-11-20  6:02                       ` Anthony Sorace
2014-11-20 14:37                         ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-20 18:43                           ` Anthony Sorace
2014-11-21 14:34                             ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-21 14:44                               ` Anthony Sorace
2014-11-21 17:31                               ` Bakul Shah
2014-11-22 18:06                                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-25  6:59                                   ` Bakul Shah
2014-11-25 11:10                                     ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-25 11:14                                       ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-25 13:52                                     ` Anthony Sorace
2014-11-25 14:26                                       ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-19 14:33                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-19 20:05           ` Bakul Shah
2014-11-19 20:40           ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2014-11-21  6:34             ` Harri Haataja [this message]
2014-11-19  2:04         ` erik quanstrom
2014-11-19  3:50           ` lucio
2014-11-19  9:40   ` Steve Simon
2014-11-19  9:50     ` dante
2014-11-19 10:18       ` Steve Simon
2014-11-19 10:27         ` dante
2014-11-19 18:55           ` Quintile
2014-11-19 10:36         ` lucio
2014-11-20  6:05           ` Anthony Sorace
2014-11-20  6:13             ` lucio

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