[ale] SSD as /

[Jeff Hubbs]

I've done this sort of thing before, using CF cards in a PCcard adapter 
in think clients (my "WyseFrame" of legend). Make sure the noatime mount 
option is included in fstab.

On 4/26/15 2:21 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> On 2015-04-26 07:55, Boris Borisov wrote:
>> Thinking of building raspi wifi access point for wireless access at home
>> replacing standalone wifi router. How is the life of SSD affected with
>> logging all the events. Is there way to optimize it. Like block size,
>> kernel cache buffers, doing logs in RAM disk and save every 5 minutes and
>> etc.
> You'll shorten the life of the SD card with lots of logging but what you
> could do is configure syslog to send to a remote machine that has a
> better drive.  I do that with one of my two RPis (my other RPi has a
> spinning hard drive for root).  With the remote logging, the SD only RPi
> almost never touches the SD card.
>
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