Hi again, fullzero and all
I've got a question for you. Some of my rigs now have a problem booting from USB stick. I have many different sticks but after a month or two of normal booting some of them started to fail on booting process, I/O errors etc... I understand that this is a quality problem in most cases, but also I think it's the usecase problem. So now I'm thinking of nvOC/rxOC mod that could do network booting to completely exclude this kind of issues while using these distros. The question is - have someone tried to boot nvOC from network? If yes, please share your experience to us!
USB sticks were not designed to work as hard drives. Yes, you can use them for a while but then you will start experiencing issues like this. USB stick's memory cells can be overwritten 1000-5000 times before they give up completely or lock in read-only mode.
I know it is nice to have logging enabled for miners, for screen using the "L" option (screenlog.0), for the new web-stats feature but consider that all those generated logs are killing the USB stick. Not to forget that the linux OS is also logging a lot of things in the background.
If you want your USB stick to last longer disable as much of the logging as possible. Especially don't turn on screen logging.
If you really want the logs on and headaches off, consider switching to SSD. You invested thousands of dollars in your mining rig, $30 or $40 more for SSD wouldn't break the bank.