On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Philip <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I have a net5501 with a 40G laptop drive in it > it runs freebsd and the base OS is a broadband router and firewall > It also has two jails running. One is my web server and the other my mail > server. > Both are pretty low volume. > It sits on the end of a domestic cable internet service and I use dynamic dns > on it. > Both the net5501 and the cable modem are powered by an old 12V car battery so > I'm fairly immune to > power cuts. > > I also have an old desktop with debian which I use a samba file server. This > makes too much noise > and heat and generally upsets my wife, so I have been recycling an old Epia > 5000 board in a new case > with a 1T sata drive. I have to boot it from CF (using an IDE2CF adaptor) > because it wouldn't boot > from the sata. It is wonderfully quiet and I suspect (hope) that the 1T > drive is actually asleep > most of the time. > > This is making me wonder. Should I be booting the net5501 from CF as well > and mounting the HD as a > data store rather than actually running the OS on it? Will it make it more > reliable? I have had a > few servers fail over the years and it's usually the HD that goes. > I wouldn't be able to fit everything onto a CF card, the mail server in > particular is too big and so > would have to stay on the HD.
What I did once was install an OS onto CF that had the boot and install image on it, then did an install onto an IDE disk (this was a 4801). So I in effect had a fully running system, that I could also in the event of an emergency boot from CF to fix or re-install the system. :-) -Bryan _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
