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They ought to compensate users for the excessive flash memory writes if the users are going to be guinea pigs for their beta test.
by KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
They ought to compensate users for the excessive flash memory writes if the users are going to be guinea pigs for their beta test.
- axoltl 3y agoThe writes would go to /dev/null. No "excessive flash memory writes" were done, as they were testing the ingest portion.
- orf 3y agoWhy?
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoBecause flash memory has a limited number of write cycles and an entire file system migration will gobble up a good chunk of it.
- orf 3y agoYes, but why should users be compensated for that. And why would it use a large portion of that, rather than an additional 1 write per cell?
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoBecause if you see OP's comment, they were testing their migrator on real users' devices (in what I presume is a blue green manner, without explicitly informing them except in small print) before their "official launch". If their beta test didn't go well, they will have to rollback their change, consuming more writes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40044310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40044310
- glhaynes 3y agoYou didn't get your check for 3 billionths of a penny when they were sending them out?