On Thu, Sep 21, 2000, Douglas Swarin wrote:
> Ideally, I would use one of the IDE flash-based drives on the market. One
> brand is SanDisk, and they take a standard IDE connector and fit into a
> 3.5" drive bay. You can get them very reasonably priced up to 128MB or
> so, which is just fine for a boot partition. Since flash drives have no
> moving parts, mechanical failure is not an issue, and since the root
> partition is not written to much, the flash will not wear out for a
> long time (flash cells wear out after about 100,000 writes; the flash
> drives do load balancing and stuff to ensure that the (many) cells in
> the drive are written to evenly).
The neater magic will come out later when the only thing that needs to be
machine-boot-readable is /boot, and your / can be vinum. Then all you need
to have "hotswap" is your kernel+loader, which you could possibly get away
even on a floppy disk.
Adrian
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