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Subject: Re: Compactflash cards dying?
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> Bryan> You would be surprised how fast a million writes can happen on
> Bryan> a disk.

especially if you don't mount with noatime.
I mounted my filesystems ro in conjunction with tmpfs
and never had problems with CF.

P?draig.

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