hey, On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:51:49PM +0100, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > Now it's time to choose a CF card. I'm considering either 2 GB or 4 GB. > I'll try to run vanilla OpenBSD, so I expect at least 1 GB to be > necessary for the base install. What are your experience? Is it nice to > have the extra headroom the 4GB gives?
OpenBSD will just fit on 512 MB, including the compiler and docs. But that is just a bit too small when you do a recompile (due to files kept open by running processes). 1 GB is just fine Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd1a 394M 37.9M 336M 10% / /dev/wd1h 349M 46.0K 331M 0% /home /dev/wd1d 1008M 448M 510M 47% /usr /dev/wd1e 508M 9.5M 473M 2% /var mfs:32145 9.5M 10.0K 9.5M 0% /tmp You can keep /dev/wd1g 1009M 2.0K 958M 0% /usr/obj /dev/wd1f 690M 630M 25.4M 96% /usr/src on a cheaper USB memory stick (even keep the compiler on there if you are paranoid) If you want a full /usr/src and /usr/obj, you can get away with 2 GB but only if you have a custom /etc/mk.conf where you disable the DEBUG that bloats the libs > Also, how important is speed? I think a read speed of 20 MB/s is quite > sufficient, no? Speed is the least of my worries, you boot a system only once and usually you don't really care much about reads (perhaps more the writes). I prefer industrial grade CF with wear leveling algorithms but they are more expensive than consumer grade CF. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
