In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tenze n writes: >Hi, > >I've a net4801 + freebsd-on-hdd setup running comfortably. > >I'm interested in lists members' opinions on whether there's any >particular reasons/advantages to ADDing flash-mem.
I do put CF cards in my systems in addition to harddisk, for two reasons: 1. Having a NanoBSD image on the CF, gives a good platform for doing radical system maintenance work on the disk. In some cases I have configured things so that a "degraded mode" service can be run from the CF card, until the HD can be fixed. 2. A 4GB Flash card with a full NanoBSD system leaves 3.5GB free and that is a wonderful place to store backups from the harddisk. Ff the disk croaks, you can replace the disk, boot from the CF and make things right, without having to pull backups across a potential slow line. Writing a foo.dump.gz file once per day is not going to wear your flash card out. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
