On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:45:28 -0500, David Bryan wrote: >The other reason for not mounting the CF in a read/write mode is that CF >has a limited number of write cycles (~10,000 gate transisitions).
I have a 4801 with CF installed with 3.9 in exactly the manner I would install on a HDD. Partitions are mounted noatime, softdep in addition to the default options. I also have spamd running with verbose logging. That should, for the sake of the CF, be on the mailserver but I am life-testing the Apacer PhotoSteno CFs and for nearly six months this one has been hammered without problems. When 4.0 releases (having ordered on day 1 on the website, I'll get my CDs early) I'll load up a new CF and remove the old one for offline testing. At $AUD50 for a 512M and falling it is no great expense. I am inclined to think that farting around doing fancy stuff with custom kernels and mfs is a waste of time which would cost more than a new CF and a standard install. Even so I will not continue with spamd on the firewall, but it has shown me that CF is tougher now than when I first used it. Your kilometrage may vary. >From the land "down under": Australia. Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over? Do NOT CC me - I am subscribed to the list. Replies to the sender address will fail except from the list-server. Your IP address will also be greytrapped for 24 hours after any attempt. I am continually amazed by the people who run OpenBSD who don't take this advice. I always expected a smarter class. I guess not.
