On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:12:36 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: >For CF you dont want to mount it read / write as CFs are not designed >to handle that sort of write quantity. Read only however is not a >problem.
Have you ever worn one out? I've tried. Running an Apacer PhotoSteno II 512MB card as the hard drive in a Net4801 with an OpenBSD installation done as it would be on hard disk. I mounted the partitions noatime and softdep, turned on the highest verbosity for logging for the spamd tarpitting greylisting daemon. I then let it thrash for a year with zero errors and, believe me when I say that verbose logging thrashes the drive, with 8 levels of archived rotated logs there are lots and lots of writes. Of course deletes cause lots of writes too. The same CF is still running with two more complete re-installs in its history since that period but I moved the spamd filtering to the mailserver when I used a hosting service to bridge a gap between two ADSL connections so it's not thrashing quite as much since then. Still zero errors. It's only a fast consumer grade CF not one of the industrial units. About to be replaced with an even faster PS-III from Apacer for a quick changeover upgrade of the OS but I won't toss it out. We also have a stack of clients with CF cards up to two years old in firewall service. In one case a multi-national tourist outfit. Guess what their logging rate is? None has ever given us grief. I think that somebody needs to update all the old time stuff about CF wearing out in no time. Meantime I save fiddling with custom kernels, using ramdisk etc etc. Rod/ A consultant is someone who's called in when someone has painted himself into a corner. He's expected to levitate his client out of that corner. -The Sayings of Chairman Morrow. 1984. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
