Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-15 Thread David Christensen
On 03/15/18 12:24, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 15/03/2018 à 06:01, David Christensen a écrit : 2.  Instead of RAID1, use a checksumming file system (btrfs), take images periodically, put key configuration files into a version control system, and backup data daily.  This is what I do for all my

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/03/2018 à 06:01, David Christensen a écrit : I also thought about two USB flash drives and RAID: 1.  Instead of RAID0, get a PATA or SATA SSD (or DOM).  Used drives can be found on eBay for cheap, especially SATA I or II. RAID 0 with USB flash drives ? You like to live dangerously.

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-15 Thread David
On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 19:33 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 15/03/18 18:01, David Christensen wrote: > > That said, why do you have storage in a thin client? I thought the idea > > is to boot the clients over the network, run from RAM, and have the > > server do most of the work (?). > > They

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-15 Thread Richard Hector
On 15/03/18 18:01, David Christensen wrote: > That said, why do you have storage in a thin client?  I thought the idea > is to boot the clients over the network, run from RAM, and have the > server do most of the work (?). They were intended as thin clients - I'm not using them as such. I just

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-14 Thread David Christensen
On 03/14/18 20:17, Richard Hector wrote: On 15/03/18 13:11, David Christensen wrote: On 03/14/18 00:28, Richard Hector wrote: On 14/03/18 15:35, David Christensen wrote: On 03/13/18 17:00, Richard Hector wrote: Apologies for the diversion - does anyone know if there are USB flash drives that

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 15/03/18 13:11, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/14/18 00:28, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 14/03/18 15:35, David Christensen wrote: >>> On 03/13/18 17:00, Richard Hector wrote: Apologies for the diversion - does anyone know if there are USB flash drives that _are_ built for full-time

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-14 Thread David Christensen
On 03/14/18 00:28, Richard Hector wrote: On 14/03/18 15:35, David Christensen wrote: On 03/13/18 17:00, Richard Hector wrote: Apologies for the diversion - does anyone know if there are USB flash drives that _are_ built for full-time use, as a system disk? I've got some old thin clients that

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/03/18 15:35, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/13/18 17:00, Richard Hector wrote: >> Apologies for the diversion - does anyone know if there are USB flash >> drives that _are_ built for full-time use, as a system disk? >> >> I've got some old thin clients that could do with storage upgrades

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-14 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
I've found debian to be quit handy on flash store. On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:35 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 03/13/18 17:00, Richard Hector wrote: > >> Apologies for the diversion - does anyone know if there are USB flash >> drives that _are_ built for

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-13 Thread David Christensen
On 03/13/18 17:00, Richard Hector wrote: Apologies for the diversion - does anyone know if there are USB flash drives that _are_ built for full-time use, as a system disk? I've got some old thin clients that could do with storage upgrades that are a bit easier to come by than the weird (PATA?)

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-13 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/03/18 09:58, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > USB drives and SD cards are very different from SSDs. You cannot use > them in the same way. AFAIK, USB drives and SD cards do not support > TRIM/discard. Apologies for the diversion - does anyone know if there are USB flash drives that _are_ built for

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/03/2018 à 18:26, pe...@easthope.ca a écrit : https://wiki.debian.org/RunningOnFlash has some discussion and tips about basing the system in a flash store. USB drives and SD cards are very different from SSDs. You cannot use them in the same way. AFAIK, USB drives and SD cards do not

Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-13 Thread peter
Hi, https://wiki.debian.org/RunningOnFlash has some discussion and tips about basing the system in a flash store. Also the introduction of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2 states "ext2 is still the filesystem of choice for flash-based storage media ... because its lack of a journal