> OK guys. When I bought my ssd, I read too that this story of short > lifetime is a myth. As it is now clear to me that writing /var/log into > RAM is a totally fullish idea in case of crash, I am back to my original > fstab, with no entry for /var/log. > I will then take my time to understand rsyslog or syslog-ng. > Ty all for your wise advises. Not exactly. It's true and as your filesystem fills up it becomes more of a problem. However modern drives such as with sandforce controllers reserve around 20% of the drive so that the problem is avoided for the lifetime of a drive. The picture of data preservation, reliability and shock between SSD and HDD also has many intricacies depending on your concerns. The picture is far from simply SSD rules in all situations except capacity/£. ________________________________________________________ Why not do something good every day and install BOINC. ________________________________________________________
