Not acording to SAN Disk's documentation. http://www.sandisk.com/pdf/oem/cf-manual-10.8.pdf
They have 1,000,000 Hours MTBF. That's ~114 years. (Page 8) Minimum of 10,000 insertions, so that's not very much on a system that writes more then a coupple of times a day. Mounting the file system read only is ok, it's just when the CF gate states are changed that they loose the ability to retain the state, bad gates can be mapped around, but you now stand to loose data and corrupt your CF. IMHO, CF is the way to go, but either mounting the CF Read Only, or using a ramdisk image to boot from and MFS as the place for temporary storage... My wife and I have tried the notebook drives for the Soekris boxes, but they evently end up cooking thems selfs to death, or uninformed users keep unpluging them in the middle of a fsck, thus resulting in more damage to the disk. There either needs to be more ventilation for the HD to work, or I may need to look at adding a fan for this setup. So I would say save your self the hassel, use CF, or if you go with HDs always keep a spare on hand to ship out, and make backups when changes are made to the remote devices. I'm still torn between HD vs CF. With HD you can get logs, and run snort/squid with little or no effort. With a CF it's going to take a little bit more work to get squid to run out of memory only (or MFS) and snort will need to log via syslog or something, which when dealing with small clients, they may not have a syslog server setup, heck the OpenBSD box maybe the most advanced OS they have on-site. I've also been trying to get this install/rd_boot to work, but have been having problems, and have not had time to come back to it. http://256.com/gray/docs/soekris_openbsd_diskless/ -- David Bryan dave (at) drstrangelove dot net On Fri, July 15, 2005 8:12 am, knitti wrote: > current cf cards have 1 million guarranteed write cycles or more. > i wouldn't do heavy logging with them, but perhaps you can also > afford to log to another host or to lose logs on power down. > i think i wouldn't put /var/db/spamd directly on a cf card, perhaps > you could sync it only every hour? > > > > --knitti
