From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo To: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> References: <20141118132939.B91F11B5BC9@wolfman.devio.us> <25fc57d2bb0b43bbcf957577501c1201@posteo.de> <20141118154208.Horde.-lW_HrLDkU9P79z9xJFH7w9@ssl.eumx.net> <445f93dc54035581c54b6fa19b96f750@posteo.de> <1a3157d28f8065b3a7072365eb88e464@hamnavoe.com> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:40:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1a3157d28f8065b3a7072365eb88e464@hamnavoe.com> (Richard Miller's message of "Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:29:30 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2cc6e4aa-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 -tih -- It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. -Richard Feynman