I ran native on compact flash as an experiment for 5+ years without ever changing the CF card. I only migrated away from it because my old soekris couldn't keep up with my internet speeds once I upgraded. It still boots and works fine. Personally I found the hassle of maintaining a ramdisk frankenstein was worse than just replacing the compact flash should it fail (which it never did.) but of course YMMV.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to create an embedded amd64 installation, with system running > on a 8GB 233x CF card attached to an Intel ITX mb. > > In order to minimise nand wear off, I would like to put on ramdisk (the > machine would have 2GB ram, so I believe enough also for that, but I still > can upgrade it to 4GB if needed) the parts of the file hierarchy with most > intensive system write I/O, like, for instance, /tmp and I imagine some > parts of /var. > > My questions are two: > 1. What are the dirs I should take into account to go to ramdisk? > 2. What is the correct filesystem type to put in fstab for all the entries > of point 1. in order to store them in ramdisk? > > Thanks in advance for ur answers
