Hi Martin, > Does anyone here have experience with this kind of setup? There seems to be > a lot of anecdotal evidence suggesting that USB sticks are unreliable, but > the little actual research on this topic I can find suggests otherwise [2].
My TP-Link MR3220 has been running with a 1GB no-name usb pen drive hosting an extroot-filesystem for about 2,5 years now without any problems - my uptime record was about 500 days (power outage) - I however disabled autovacuum of postgresql to reduce write load. Some advice: - When you buy a flash-based usb drive, keep an eye on random write performance, which is in this scenario way more important than sequential write. There are drives out there which only do a single 4k write per second, which guarantees no-fun ;) - Keep in mind this is consumer hardware. Despite having not experienced any problems, I do regular backups using samba shares. Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
