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On Friday 13 April 2007 20:35, Neil Walker wrote: |
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> anhnmncb@×××××.com wrote: |
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> > I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk |
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> My network server has been doing a daily "emerge --sync" for 4 years |
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> now. Hasn't died yet. FWIW, simply running Windows puts far more strain |
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> on the HD than doing a daily sync in Gentoo ever will. Just watch the HD |
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> LED on a Windows system that isn't even doing anything sometime. |
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It usually is doing something: scanning the drives for viruses using some |
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abominable bloatware virus scanner application; indexing files (like updatedb |
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in Linux); defraging the drives when the screen saver kicks in. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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