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Re: Question regarding hardware choices

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>> It works but it is only suitable for occasional or lightweight use.  I
>> wrote a how-to guide for building such a system; it is here:
>> https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/50416.html
>> It is a little dated now but still valid.  It details some
>> optimisations you can do to boost life -- such as using a filesystem
>> without journalling, disabling access-time storage and things. These
>> help but not much.
> I do all of that, plus having logs in memory. I live in hope of
> a long life. 

[ Personally I use `ext4` and I'm not convinced it performs
  significantly more writes than `ext2` in most usage patterns
  (obviously, in theory there's more, but in practice the use of a log
  allows delaying many other writes, many of which can end up cancel'd
  before they've had a chance to be performed).  ]

You may also want to make sure `/tmp` is a tmpfs.

Furthermore, you may want to check what's being written to your disk
by enabling /proc/sys/vm/block_dump and then looking at your log
(obviously, follow the advice above *before*).  You may find specific
applications that write data "needlessly" every once in a while (I used
to symlink some firefox files to /tmp for that reason).


        Stefan

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Question regarding hardware choices Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-19 16:50 +0100
  Re: Question regarding hardware choices Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-02-19 17:10 +0100
    Re: Question regarding hardware choices Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2021-02-19 17:20 +0100
  Re: Question regarding hardware choices Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com> - 2021-02-19 18:30 +0100
    Re: Question regarding hardware choices Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-02-19 21:00 +0100
      Re: Question regarding hardware choices Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-02-19 21:30 +0100
  Re: Question regarding hardware choices Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2021-02-19 19:00 +0100
  Re: Question regarding hardware choices David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-02-19 21:40 +0100
    Re: Question regarding hardware choices Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-02-19 21:50 +0100
      Re: Question regarding hardware choices David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-02-19 22:50 +0100
        Re: Question regarding hardware choices Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-02-19 23:10 +0100
          Re: Question regarding hardware choices David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-02-20 03:30 +0100
            The Elephant and the Philospher [was: Question regarding hardware  choices] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-02-20 10:00 +0100

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