FFS isn't a journaling filesystem so any 'wear', even on primitive flash storage, won't be enough to worry about.
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Patrick Harper
paianni@fastmail.com
On Fri, 31 May 2019, at 03:41, soveran@vivaldi.net wrote:
> 30 May, 2019
>
> Greetings OpenBSD aficionados,
>
> As a newbie to OpenBSD, I am delighted to have the chance to interact
> with the OpenBSD Mailing Lists community.
> Since I am about to install OpenBSD 6.5 (amd64) on a USB Flash Drive for
> the first time, I was wondering if anyone has a solution to the
> following conundrum.
>
> In order to minimize wear on the USB Flash memory, is there a way to
> command OpenBSD to always run in RAM, and at shutdown to either save or
> not save the session to the USB Flash Drive.
>
> For instance, Precise Puppy Linux 5.7.1 has a package called Puppy Event
> Manager. Since Precise Puppy is programmed to run in RAM, you can select
> the 'Save Session' tab and enter the span of minutes for everything in
> RAM to be saved to the Precise Puppy SaveFile.
>
> Best of all, you can enter 0 minutes to only do a save at shutdown.
> Perfect for minimizing wear on a USB Flash Drive.
>
> Please accept my apologies if this issue has already been solved. My
> search so far in sites like https://marc.info has come up empty.
>
> I thank you for your support.
>
> Best regards,
> Hugh
>
>
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