On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 21:30 +0200, Joakim Aronius wrote: > * Johan Huldtgren ([email protected]) wrote: > > > With large flash cards being so easily affordable, what's the current > > > best practice for OpenBSD installs? > > ... > Agreed, from my point of view there is absolutely no need to do anything > else than a standard install. Howdy, Large flash cards are not really so affordable. The junk ones you get in most stores are certainly large enough. But, these are almost always MLC(multi-level cell) memory and die way too quickly. Used SLC cards up to 512 meg seem pretty affordable, but I have not found them much larger at a price I can afford.
Since the claim has been made here that these cards don't die anymore, I'll counter that. I have setup full featured systems with read only file systems and appropriate directories(/tmp, /var/tmp) mounted in ram and had MLC cards die after weeks of heavy use. There are things I could have done differently, but the point is that I have seen the cards fail on reasonably setup systems. This was in 2009, using new cards. Support is a valid issue, but then, the openbsd is the most hostile community to get support from of any OS I have tried. So, I don't know how much worse it would get. I try a lot of OSes, too. The Soekris community here is quite helpful and I regularly see what seems to be very responsive answers to people's problems. Have a good day, Ralph _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
