On Feb 20 19:13:04, Klaus Botschen wrote:
> The Alix2c1 board is from PC Engines, 3 LAN, 1 miniPCI,
> a 433 MHz AMD Geode LX700 with 128 MB DDR DRAM,
> CompactFlash socket (see http://pcengines.ch/alix2c1.htm).
I currently use ALIX.1C as my main router/fw/named/dhcpd
(soon to be replaced by ALIX.2C1 which you use), and have
the following comments to make:
> We need /tmp, /var and /dev writeable, but this would destroy the
> CompactFlash card. We move those three directories to a memory
> based file system that will be populated during startup.
Writing into /dev, /tmp and /var would definitely NOT "destroy the CF
card". Before installing, I too considered some filesystems to be mfs,
to make the card live longer; but I was told on this list by
knowledgeable people that this is not a concern any more. My ALIX is
running for about half a year now, with all filesystems being regular
ffs, with zero problems, while 'block log'-ing everything with
'pflogd -s 512 -f /var/log/pflog'.
I think it only is a concern if you write into /var/log heavily
on this kind of machine; and how often do you write into /dev and /tmp
after all? Don't bother setting up a mfs and populating it on boot
- just using noatime is fine; should the card die one day, new CF cards
will be cheaper than a fart by then (and eight times as big, too).
Jan
