On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 08:30:15PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. > I'm very careful (perhaps too careful) about minimizing writes to CF, and have done the following:
- disabled swap - mount / ro - mount /var /tmp and dev off ramdisks, copied from relevant partitions (cp -Rp) in /etc/rc - in the shutdown script, I copy back only the changes to the relevant slices. - critical log files are written to another host Vanilla openbsd 4.0, no longer have a HDD, 'just' 1GiB CF card. Reading this thread I am wondering now if I'm being excessive, but certainly if I had a HDD in this machine now, it would be the one that is the backup medium! Just want to get some feedback from you guys then, do you normally leave a HDD in a soekris box, are these boxes doing that many frequent writes that can't be buffered in RAM? Cheers, Jonathan. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
