25 Aug
2019
25 Aug
'19
1:43 p.m.
On 25 Aug 2019, at 21:45, Roger Dingledine arma@torproject.org wrote:
And as a last note, I think it's been a long time since anybody tuned AvoidDiskWrites to have actually reasonable parameters. I wrote it long ago as a potential feature that somebody might find useful, and I just picked some numbers that seemed plausible back in 2007.
Since 2007, we've seen some significant technological changes: * More devices with batteries * More devices with SSDs * Better disk forensics techniques
So it might be a good idea to change the client default to AvoidDiskWrites 1: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31507
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