Excessive USB wrires

[acp]

Running free as 8.3.1 on a 4gb USB stick. I noticed early on the freenas writes a lot to the drive (for example badblock scan on a drive that had a lot of bad blocks would full up the drive in messages logs). Just yesterday the USB drive finally failed (kernel panic due to unable to write, couldn't fix drive as fsck couldn't write). Was able to copy to a new stick and fsck could repair the file system, I'm concerned that will happen again as that drive that failed is less than a year old. Is it possible to move the writes somewhere else?

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[Yatti420]

Update to FreeNAS 9 / Use highquality USBs.. Welcome & Good luck..

 

[cyberjock]

Umm.. where are you getting the idea that the USB stick had lots of writes to it? And what makes you think that the log was being written to the USB stick. Maybe now's a good time to mention that 1/2 the places users throw files are actually RAM drives, and still others are read-only. :) More info please....

 

[Dusan]

I noticed early on the freenas writes a lot to the drive (for example badblock scan on a drive that had a lot of bad blocks would full up the drive in messages logs).

/var is a ramdisk, not a location on the USB stick. So, the "lot of writes" never touch the USB -- it is the ramdisk that gets filled. The only writable part of the USB stick is /data that contains the config DB and it normally sees one write per hour.

 

[acp]

Update to FreeNAS 9 / Use highquality USBs.. Welcome & Good luck..

It is my plan to upgrade. Not quite ready for that yet.