Back in 2005-2006, I made a few firewalls using 1GB SD cards. They all
lasted 4 years running smoothwall with continuous logging.
If you want to make it last longer, put /var/log and /tmp in RAM using
tmpfs, then periodically (once/day), make backups of the tmpfs and store
it on the SD card. I then altered init to create the tmpfs, copy the
files from SD card to tmpfs. It worked fine until init was updated by
yum. Oops :)
Regards,
George Toft
On 2/3/2014 10:46 AM, Daniel Stasinski wrote:
> Still true last time I checked but they use a lot of techniques to
> mitigate the problem. They write to different locations and I'm told
> some have far more memory space internally than is available to
> decrease the amount of writes to any given address. My first USB
> drives lasted maybe a year at most but I have a few now that are 7
> years or older.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I remember that USB drives used to be good for a limited amount of
> writes. Is that still true?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
> <mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
>
>
>
> --
> | ---------------------------------------------------------------
> | Daniel P. Stasinski
> | daniel@GenericInbox.com
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list -
PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
(text/plain)