Re: [Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-10 Thread Davy MELINA
Arnt: Just for my information, do you know how many write (maybe read too) operations support a standard CF ? Le 10 oct. 08 à 13:01, Arnt Gulbrandsen a écrit : Stuart Henderson writes: On 2008-10-10, Davy MELINA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use JFFS2 filesystem on your CF not EXT3FS or use

Re: [Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-10 Thread Richard Gooch
Bill Maas writes: It depends on the application you have in mind. For a router, the CF is perfect, for a DB backend server it most likely isn't. Maintaining a swap partition is also not a viable option with a CF card. This isn't actually true. Even the older CF cards have good enough wear

Re: [Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-10 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Stuart Henderson writes: On 2008-10-10, Davy MELINA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use JFFS2 filesystem on your CF not EXT3FS or use TMPFS for your /var. CF already does wear-levelling in the card's controller. And longevity is *far* better than many people seem to assume. People aren't really

Re: [Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-10 Thread Bill Maas
Hi Oleg, On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 10:10 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote: Bill Maas wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:15 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote: Hey there, I'm thinking of getting the new net5501 board and would like to find out the common way people use CF cards. I assume the board can

Re: [Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-10 Thread Bill Maas
Hi Richard, I was talking about write speeds, not about CF card lifespan. And yes, of course it also depends on what people are going to push into the DB. I wouldn't set up a CVS server on a CF card myself, just because in general those cards are still quite slow, the affordable ones at least.

[Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-09 Thread Oleg Smolsky
Hey there, I'm thinking of getting the new net5501 board and would like to find out the common way people use CF cards. I assume the board can boot from a CF card, and my question is whether can I create an ext3fs partition on the CF, mount it on / and use it as if I had a normal IDE/SATA