[mythtv-users] OT: Get off my SSD?!

Wed Sep 23 17:20:27 UTC 2009

On Wed, September 23, 2009 10:11 am, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> I don't recommend putting /var/log on a RAM drive.  Modern SSD
> lifetimes are already pretty long and the utility of log files that
> live longer than your uptime usually outweighs any increased longevity
> of the SSD.

One alternative would be to send the syslog messages to another machine,
if you have a file server or something that runs all the time.