4.2 and compactflash

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Cohen
Hi, maybe this is a bit off-topic, but: I'm planning to upgrade my firewall box which is running 4.1-STABLE on a 512Mb Kingston compactflash card to 4.2 on a 1-2gb (also Kingston) cf card. Currently I have / mounted ro and /var and /etc on an mfs which can be tricky... Question is: do I still

Re: 4.2 and compactflash

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 9/26/07, Chris Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question is: do I still need to mount / ro on current cf cards or do they have enough write cycles? Go ahead and mount rw. I've put a couple of terabytes through a 256M card with iogen, and it's doing fine. The wear-leveling mechanisms on the

Re: 4.2 and compactflash

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Cohen
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 21:17:00 Chris Kuethe wrote: On 9/26/07, Chris Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question is: do I still need to mount / ro on current cf cards or do they have enough write cycles? Go ahead and mount rw. I've put a couple of terabytes through a 256M card with