Herb Peyerl wrote:

> Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>  wrote:
>  > A question on the flash drive: do you have its filesystems mounted
>  > read-only, or at least noatime? ISTR limits on the number of write
>  > cycles for CF cards that would use them up after a few hours of
>  > typical UNIX hard drive use.
>
> I haven't bothered with any such thing.  The flash I've been
> encountering has a rewrite liftetime of a million cycles or something
> on a per-bit basis... Since I have no swap configured and don't run
> syslogd, I'm not too concerned with writes...

Unless you are careful you could easily hit a million, with a write every
10s it's less than 4 months.

    -- Lennart