On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:40:20AM +1000, Rod.. Whitworth wrote: > 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 have run HDs in net4801's and had two fail. Both were Toshiba drives. I do not think it was anything that was wrong with the drive, just lack of cooling. I have also been running a net4501 for just shy of two years as a DNS server with a 512MB Sandisk CF card. It has been running flawlessly. I would not bother with mounting / read-only in a normal situation. The only reason I do is so I can power off the box at will and not worry about filesystem issues. (This one is a mobile AP.) > 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. I agree completely! CF cards are cheap and work great. I was amazed to get two Sandisk 1GB CF cards recently for US $35 each. Bryan
