[arm-allstar] Hamvoip Operational Question

[George Stein]

Thank you Doug and David for the detailed answers.  Seems like a well
thought out way for the system to work.  Again, thanks to the team that
keeps everything up and running so smoothly.

Regards,
George

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:35 AM "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> George,
>
>    You are correct. Everything possible is written to a tmp file system
> meaning RAM.  If you do a df at the linux prompt you will see this. The
> entire system works out of RAM for writes after boot.  Here is a typical
> server -
>
> # df
> Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/root        3762048 1738516   1812712  49% /
> devtmpfs          443724       0    443724   0% /dev
> tmpfs             477516       0    477516   0% /dev/shm
> tmpfs             477516   48124    429392  11% /run
> tmpfs             477516       0    477516   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> tmpfs             477516     284    477232   1% /tmp
> tmpfs              51200    1508     49692   3% /var/log
> /dev/mmcblk0p1    102182   31902     70280  32% /boot
> /dev/sda1       59374732 3002524  53333028   6% /media/MS1
> tmpfs              95504       0     95504   0% /run/user/0
>
> So unless you create something that uses a vast amount of permanent storage
> on the SD card and repetitively writes it, cards should last almost
> indefinitely. I have cards that have been in service for as many as 5 years
> or more.
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 1:07 PM "George via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > I am curious about one area of Hamvoip operation. How often is something
> > written to the SD Card (other than operator changes to the files or
> > updates)?  For example, the logs, the list of stations currently on-air,
> > etc.  Are these and other items in memory and not written out to the SD
> > card?
> > Thanks for any clarifications.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > George, NJ3HRedmond, Oregon USA
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