On 2011-04-12 20:34, Ed Flecko wrote:
> Hi folks,
> When reading posts about setting up a Soekris using a compact flash, I
> see a lot of people saying that a compact flash cannot withstand a lot
> of writing before failing.
>
> 1.) Is that true? How much is "a lot" of writing? (My 4501 is for my
>
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:55:55 +0100, Philip wrote:
> I am sure you are right. I was just thinking that if the USB memory
> stick fails you can buy a new one for £1 and you wouldn't need to
> reinstall the whole OS.
>
Was thinking the same thing, except on my 4801 it's USB1 so very slow
write sp
In message <4da59d5b.2040...@christiantena.net>, Philip writes:
>I am sure you are right. I was just thinking that if the USB memory
>stick fails you can buy a new one for £1 and you wouldn't need to
>reinstall the whole OS.
Ohh, absolutely.
But that sort of hinges on your logfiles not being im
I am sure you are right. I was just thinking that if the USB memory
stick fails you can buy a new one for £1 and you wouldn't need to
reinstall the whole OS.
regards, Philip
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <4da598a2.5080...@christiantena.net>, Philip writes:
>
>
>> Maybe logs could be w
In message <4da598a2.5080...@christiantena.net>, Philip writes:
>Maybe logs could be written to a USB memory stick?
Same issues apply and are often much worse on USB sticks.
CF cards are targeted mainly at professional photographers these days,
USB sticks are for consumers.
--
Poul-Henning Kam
Maybe logs could be written to a USB memory stick?
regards, Philip
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <4da4d3c2.6060...@bogus.com>, Joel Jaeggli writes:
>
> The answer is "it depends on so many factors that you do not and
> often cannot know, that you might as well give up predicting it at all
In message <4da4d3c2.6060...@bogus.com>, Joel Jaeggli writes:
The answer is "it depends on so many factors that you do not and
often cannot know, that you might as well give up predicting it at all."
Unless you can get statistics out of the flash-adaptation layer in the
card, there is no way to p
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> -Mike
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> From: "Ed Flecko"
> Date: Tue, Apr 12, 2011 14:34
> Subject: [Soekris] Life expectancy of a compact flash?
> T
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:51:46AM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Ed Flecko wrote:
> I picked up a used 4801 a while ago, loaded a full install of openbsd
> on it to test just exactly that. I didn't care if it fried the card
> in a month or 2, or 6. It's been run
On 4/12/2011 11:52 AM, Javier Reyna Padilla wrote:
> You use ram disks for the partitions with write activities, for
> example /etc and /var if you want to use FBSD you can use NanoBSD
Or reduce most of the write activity (logs) to syslog to a remote host
that does have a disk, and live with th
> Hi folks,
> When reading posts about setting up a Soekris using a compact flash, I
> see a lot of people saying that a compact flash cannot withstand a lot
> of writing before failing.
>
> 1.) Is that true? How much is "a lot" of writing? (My 4501 is for my
> tiny, home network)
Theoretically,
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Ed Flecko wrote:
> When reading posts about setting up a Soekris using a compact flash, I
> see a lot of people saying that a compact flash cannot withstand a lot
> of writing before failing.
>
> 1.) Is that true? How much is "a lot" of writing? (My 4501 is for m
On 04/12/2011 02:52 PM, Javier Reyna Padilla wrote:
You use ram disks for the partitions with write activities, for
example /etc and /var if you want to use FBSD you can use NanoBSD
2011/4/12 Nick Knight
I think it is in the order of 100,000 writes, reads are not an issue.
So with linux atime
On 04/12/2011 02:51 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Ed Flecko wrote:
Hi folks,
When reading posts about setting up a Soekris using a compact flash, I
see a lot of people saying that a compact flash cannot withstand a lot
of writing before failing.
1.) Is that true? Ho
For FreeBSD, I typically use a memory filesystem for /var, and make
/tmp a symbolic link to /var/tmp. DEVFS takes care of /dev. For the
rest, I used to simply mount it read-only, but that cause the
occasional problem when you want to save configs, etc. so instead of
going through the gyrations of
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:51:46AM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote:
> loaded a full install of openbsd
>on it to test just exactly that. I didn't care if it fried the card
>in a month or 2, or 6. It's been running now for over a year with no
>problems at all. I've used it exactly the same way I would
You use ram disks for the partitions with write activities, for
example /etc and /var if you want to use FBSD you can use NanoBSD
2011/4/12 Nick Knight
>
> I think it is in the order of 100,000 writes, reads are not an issue.
> So with linux atime, you can very quickly get there.
>
> I have a l
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Ed Flecko wrote:
> Hi folks,
> When reading posts about setting up a Soekris using a compact flash, I
> see a lot of people saying that a compact flash cannot withstand a lot
> of writing before failing.
>
> 1.) Is that true? How much is "a lot" of writing? (My 45
I think it is in the order of 100,000 writes, reads are not an issue.
So with linux atime, you can very quickly get there.
I have a linux distro based on bering, which creates a ram disk and
loads all os into that on boot. config is then written out to flash
via a command.
Log files are then crea
I could be wrong, but I thought the solid state devices were good for a million
writes.
-Mike
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From: "Ed Flecko"
Date: Tue, Apr 12, 2011 14:34
Subject: [Soekris] Life expectancy of a compact flash?
To:
Hi folks,
When reading posts about setting up a Soekr
Hi folks,
When reading posts about setting up a Soekris using a compact flash, I
see a lot of people saying that a compact flash cannot withstand a lot
of writing before failing.
1.) Is that true? How much is "a lot" of writing? (My 4501 is for my
tiny, home network)
2.) How do you set up an OS (
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