Flash Drives Sanity Check
Hi List ! I was wondering if anyone had any experience of running FreeBSD out of Compact Flash ? The HDD to Flash adapters are around 15GBP here and 1GB of Flash about 70GBP I know there are some projects around that use Compact Flash (like Openbrick) but I was thinking more in terms of running a stripped down desktop workstation. Does CF stand lots of read / write operations ? I read somewhere that it has quite low life expectancy ? My main idea is to use the Mini-ITX platform to build a tiny workstation that has a stripped down FreeBSD with something like Fluxbox and to get the whole thing to run from the CF using a USB Stick for storing work. Have I lost the plot here OR is this idea viable ? Any comments welcome :) http://www.flash-card-store.co.uk/acatalog/Boot_from_Flash2.html Custom PC North West Open Source Solutions http://www.cpcnw.co.uk ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash Drives Sanity Check
Does CF stand lots of read / write operations ? I read somewhere that it has quite low life expectancy ? I can't help you out on much of the quest, but this part is generally advertised when full specs are given for the card. Often I see cards looking in the neighbourhood of 100,000 lifetime read/writes expected. While this isn't much for a long-term solution, I'd expect you're talking about using this solution for a non-permanent install. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash Drives Sanity Check
Graham Bentley wrote: I was wondering if anyone had any experience of running FreeBSD out of Compact Flash ? I would consider using NetBSD instead, as that OS seems to support a stripped-down config somewhat easier than FreeBSD (or PicoBSD). I am using NetBSD on a Soekris 4801 box via CF: http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm The HDD to Flash adapters are around 15GBP here and 1GB of Flash about 70GBP I know there are some projects around that use Compact Flash (like Openbrick) but I was thinking more in terms of running a stripped down desktop workstation. Does CF stand lots of read / write operations ? Not really. You've identified a major concern. I read somewhere that it has quite low life expectancy ? Many CF cards are only rated for 10K or 20K writes, although I believe that some newer CF cards will handle 50K to 100K writes. It is highly recommended that you mount filesystems read-only or at least noatime, to avoid scribbing non-significant updates to the superblock and common directories. It's also a good idea to mount /var on a RAM disk. CF is better suited for embedded applications like firewalls and the like than it is for general-purpose use. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
