[GTALUG] long war story: growing the ESP (/boot/efi)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 09:49:30AM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> Years ago I worked on an avionics project where we were storing data in an
> NVRAM.
> We had to write code to manage the wear-out in the cells and if I remember
> correctly the wear-out was in the hundreds of thousands to millions of
> writes before problems would occur.
> 
> I could not see normal usage causing wear-out unless someone were to have
> some kind of bug causing a high write rate.

Consumer grade flash often only has 10000 write cycles.  Especially if
it isn't expected to be updated very much.  Different price point.

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Len Sorensen