Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

[Rich Freeman]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:40:08 +0800, Amankwah wrote:
>
>> Maybe the only solution is that move the portage tree to HDD??
>
> Or tmpfs if you rarely reboot or have a fast enough connection to your
> preferred portage mirror.

There has been a proposal to move it to squashfs, which might
potentially also help.

The portage tree is 700M uncompressed, which seems like a bit much to
just leave in RAM all the time.

Mine is on an SSD, but the SMART attributes aren't well-documented so
I have no idea what the erase count or WAF is - just the LBA written
count.

Rich