[gopher] (no subject)

[Kevin Veroneau]

I use the SD card on my Pi for everything.  With the price of SD cards being so ridiculously cheap, 32GB for less than a $20 bill, and that's also brand name Kingston.  I honestly don't see the big deal on using the SD card for a gopher server plus more.  As long as you back up your data regularly, you shouldn't have anything to worry about.  Also SD cards these days I believe can sustain more writes than SD cards of years past.  Smartphones use a similar flash technology for their internal storage, and android uses FAT32 still for the user data section.  So if Google and millions of smartphone users are totally fine, I'm sure my Pi running a low load and access gopher server will be around for at least a couple years with no SD card degradation.

  Original Message  
From:mateusz at viste.fr
Sent:January 9, 2016 3:04 AM
To:gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject:Re: [gopher] (no subject)

If you don't change your gopher files often, and you keep the server's 
logs out of the flash memory (either by not logging at all, or by 
sending logs via syslog), then yes, it might work for a few years.

You will definitely want to mount all your flash storage with "noatime", 
and disable any kind of swap, too.

Good luck!

Mateusz



On 09/01/2016 10:45, Walter Vermeir wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> As storage I will use a USB-stick. I know that is not ideal but if there
> is ever a server situation where that is acceptable then it is a gopher
> server in 2016 where the average expected server load is around 0.
>
> Walter
>



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