Wim Vandeputte - Mailinglists only skrev: > 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. > Sounds like I should go for a slower 4GB for the extra headroom. Or, if I compile what I need on another machine, I could do with 2GB (even less).
Wear leveling would be nice, but it looks like it might be cheaper to make backups and buy a new card in case of failure. Regards, Pontus _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
