Admittedly, I don't know much about Linux.  Just enough to build an unRaid server and get myself in trouble.  Recently, I installed unMenu, Sabnzbd, and Sickbeard.  Sabnzbd and Sickbeard were installed via unMenu and I see them on the flash drive.  This had me thinking.  I was always under the impression that flash drives could be corrupted rather easily if they are asked to read/write often.  So once unMenu, Sabnzbd, and Sickbeard are up and running on the flash where do they really live?  Does the flash indeed need to read/write as these programs are used or do they reside in memory and work from there once they are loaded?  Does YAMJ operate in a similar way?  Just curious.

Admittedly, I don't know much about Linux.  Just enough to build an unRaid server and get myself in trouble.  Recently, I installed unMenu, Sabnzbd, and Sickbeard.  Sabnzbd and Sickbeard were installed via unMenu and I see them on the flash drive.  This had me thinking.  I was always under the impression that flash drives could be corrupted rather easily if they are asked to read/write often.  So once unMenu, Sabnzbd, and Sickbeard are up and running on the flash where do they really live?  Does the flash indeed need to read/write as these programs are used or do they reside in memory and work from there once they are loaded?  Does YAMJ operate in a similar way?  Just curious.

Most of the time the packages are stored on the flash drive and they are read from there on every reboot.  The actual files that are used by those programs are where ever you set them to be in the config section of the unMenu package manager.

So it reads from the flash upon boot, but what about after that?  Does unMenu, Sabnzbd, and Sickbeard just work from memory or does it actually work from the flash?  Also, what about YAMJ?

 

Fyi - I am aware that the actual downloads reside on hard drives on the servers.  I'm asking more about how these packages operate from the flash.

So it reads from the flash upon boot, but what about after that?  Does unMenu, Sabnzbd, and Sickbeard just work from memory or does it actually work from the flash?  Also, what about YAMJ?

 

Fyi - I am aware that the actual downloads reside on hard drives on the servers.  I'm asking more about how these packages operate from the flash.

As I said, unless you specified the install location in the package as the flash drive, the only thing that happens on the flash drive in that it reads and loads the needed .tgz/tgx files and whatever it might need.  I am sure that the SAB and SickBeard packages do not needlessly read and write to the flash drive.

 

YJAM I can't speak for since I do not use it.