On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:49 PM,
import Control.Monad foo = do forever $ writeFile "filename.foo" "Hello world!"
will that destroy those sectors of my SSD after the rated 3000 write cycles?
Check your OS; while the firmware of modern SSD devices does much of the work of rotating blocks of Flash around to mitigate this, the OS can help by using a TRIM operation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM I personally would consider that rapidly changing files should be kept somewhere else such as tmpfs with periodic snapshots to nonvolatile storage. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix/linux, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure http://sinenomine.net