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Why

A free-sleep user reported ~25 GB/day of eMMC writes on a Pod 5, a little over a third of its rated endurance used after 6 months. We already move RAW frames to tmpfs (ADR 0018), and our NATS readers use core subscriptions (no JetStream consumer state). But we had no visibility into wear, and the journal still landed on flash: Eight's firmware sets Storage=persistent and recreates /var/log/journal → /persistent/journal at every boot. On a pre-NATS Pod 5 with tmpfs active, I measured ~3 GB/day for the whole device.

What

  • System → Storage → Flash endurance card: chip name and size, JEDEC life_time (main and SLC areas, in 10% bands), pre_eol_info reserve-block state, writes per day, and bytes written since boot. The card turns warn/danger at 80%+ wear or when the chip reports low reserve blocks, and is hidden off-pod.
  • Writes per day come from the device's sectors-written counter (/sys/block/mmcblk0/stat). An hourly sampler stores it in the new flash_write_samples table in biometrics.db, keyed by boot_id so a reboot's counter reset is handled. The rate averages the last week of samples plus the live reading and shows once samples cover an hour. Rows go through the normal biometrics retention. The pod kernel has no per-process I/O accounting, so this is whole-device: firmware + sleepypod + OS.
  • Journal in RAM: new scripts/lib/journald-helpers writes Storage=volatile, RuntimeMaxUse=48M and only restarts journald when the config changes; journald keeps services' log streams across the restart. It's used by install and by sp-update, so existing pods pick it up on update. Trade-off: logs from before a reboot are gone, so sp-bundle-logs only covers the current boot.
  • New endpoint: GET /system/flash (system.getFlashHealth). The demo handler is included.

Results on Pod .88 (Pod 5, PJ3032 eMMC, 2026-10-17)

Whole-device writes from /sys/block/mmcblk0/stat, in 20-minute windows on a settled pod:

Window Build Journal eMMC writes
Before feat/biometrics-local-fit on flash 4.2 GB/day
After this branch RAM 2.0 GB/day
Same build feat/biometrics-local-fit RAM 1.9 GB/day (excludes an unrelated 1.5 GB deploy burst)

The journal change cuts total flash writes by about half. The on-flash journal stopped growing, and /system/flash returns the chip data on the pod.

Rollout lag: sp-update runs the pod's existing copy of itself and installs the new copy partway through, so an existing pod picks up the journald change on the update after this one. The maintenance timer and storage sudoers already behave this way.

Test plan

  • vitest: parsers, readFlash against real Pod 5 sysfs values, rate across reboots, 1-week window, StorageTab card states, retention + schema snapshot
  • tsc, eslint, shellcheck on the helper, bash -n on install / sp-update
  • Demo-mode screenshot of the Storage tab
  • Deployed to Pod .88: /system/flash serves chip data, migrations applied, journalctl --header shows /run/log/journal, journal readable as sleepypod
  • Measured eMMC writes before and after (above)
  • Writes per day fills in after an hour of samples (the pod was redeployed by another session before that)

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      --branch feat/emmc-endurance \
      --artifact-url 'https://nightly.link/ng/core/actions/runs/39086672405/sleepypod-core.zip'

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a flash endurance card to the Storage screen when device health data is available. It shows wear estimates, reserve-block status, daily writes, and bytes written since boot; daily-write data is shown as still measuring when unavailable.
    • Added flash health reporting for supported devices, including wear status and write-rate estimates.
  • Improvements
    • System journal storage is now kept in volatile storage with limits on space and file age. Updates apply the same journal configuration as installation.

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📝 Walkthrough

The change adds eMMC flash-health sampling, reporting, and a storage-tab card. It also adds a shared journald configuration helper used by the installer and update script.

Changes: Flash Health Reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Flash health data and calculations
src/db/biometrics-migrations/0031_wide_black_knight.sql, src/db/biometrics-migrations/meta/_journal.json, src/db/biometrics-schema.ts, src/db/retention.ts, src/db/tests/retention.test.ts, src/lib/flashHealth.ts, src/lib/tests/flashHealth.test.ts
Adds timestamped flash write samples to the biometrics database and retention pruning. Adds parsing for flash-health values, write-rate calculations, and report generation.
Sampling and query integration
src/lib/flashSampler.ts, src/server/instrumentation-node.ts, src/server/routers/system.ts, src/demo/handlers/system.ts
Adds hourly sampling and server lifecycle integration. Adds the getFlashHealth query and demo response.
Flash endurance display
src/components/System/StorageTab.tsx, src/components/System/tests/StorageTab.test.tsx
Adds a polled flash endurance card with wear, reserve-block, and write information. Tests cover hidden, populated, measuring, and past-rated-life states.

Journald Configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared journald configuration helper
scripts/lib/journald-helpers
Adds install_journald_config to write the journald drop-in, skip an unnecessary restart, and restore or remove configuration if restart fails.
Installer and update integration
scripts/install, scripts/bin/sp-update
Sources the helper and calls install_journald_config. The installer comment describes keeping new logs in RAM.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant instrumentation-node
  participant flashSampler
  participant flashHealth
  participant sysfs
  participant biometricsDB
  participant systemRouter
  participant StorageTab
  instrumentation-node->>flashSampler: Start scheduled sampling
  flashSampler->>flashHealth: Read device and record sample
  flashHealth->>sysfs: Read flash counters and health data
  sysfs-->>flashHealth: Return available values
  flashHealth->>biometricsDB: Store timestamped counter sample
  StorageTab->>systemRouter: Poll getFlashHealth
  systemRouter->>flashSampler: Request current report
  flashSampler->>flashHealth: Read live data and build report
  flashHealth->>biometricsDB: Load recent samples
  systemRouter-->>StorageTab: Return report or null
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Review comments at @scripts/lib/journald-helpers:
- Around line 27-29: Update the journald restart-failure branch to restore the
previous drop-in instead of always removing the installed file, then verify that
systemd-journald is active before returning. Keep the existing warning and retry
behavior when the previous configuration is restored and the service is
confirmed active.

Review comments at @src/lib/flashHealth.ts:
- Line 109: Update the bootId handling in the flash health reading and
rate-sample path: do not substitute "unknown" when the boot ID cannot be read,
and ensure writeRate withholds rate samples unless the boot ID is known. Keep
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  • src/db/retention.ts
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