On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:14:36 +1200 Hadley Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 31 July 2006 09:39, Nick Rout wrote: > > is it running a rw filesystem on the flash card? This is widely regarded > > as a "bad thing" given the limited write life of flash. > > > > However if you look at voyage (http://www.voyage.hk ) they do a debian > > system which runs in a read only disk with the rw portions being in > > ramdisk. Its a debian based system and it is possible to simply apt-get > > additional software (after making the flash disk rw, then after all > > config etc is done you make it ro again) > > If you have enough space on the CF then you can also do this with standard > Debian by apt-getting flashybrid - I think that is what Voyage uses. > > hads > > -- > http://nicegear.co.nz > New Zealand's VoIP supplier > ...I've read a lot of articles lately that refute the CF write problem... with most of them managing many hundreds of thousands of writes comfortably. Even so, that's nowhere near enough to support logging, and so on, but... Steve
