[wellylug] CF card lifetime

Sam Vilain sam at vilain.net
Tue Mar 22 11:52:35 NZDT 2011


On 21/03/11 22:56, Richard Hector wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently started using a Soekris box with a CF card as my home
> firewall.
>
> I'm aware that these cards only have a limited number of writes, but
> counting them seems impractical. Does anyone know if there are tools to
> let me know how close to the end I am? It doesn't support S.M.A.R.T.

Hey Richard, apprently YAFFS / YAFFS2 supports wear-level counts at the
filesystem layer - try formatting it as that.  And make double sure you
take regular backups as with any unusual filesystem :-).

Sam



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