On Dec 15, 2009, at 6:22 PM, "Rod Whitworth" <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:35:32 +0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber wrote:
I'm sure that original CF card would *eventually* fail if I kept
it in
service long enough...
Or some other hardware component. Or more likely, the whole system
becomes obsolete first.
Absolutely!
I have a Soekris 4801 with a SanDisk SDCFB-51 512MB that underwent
thrashing for over a year with me trying to wear it out. It is still a
very busy spamd filter with verbose logging and it has been in use
since some time in 2005. Full OpenBSD installs minus X and comp (for
size not security!) because I do builds on a powerful box and do PXE
installs to the "appliance boxen".
I use noatime and softdep on the filesystems, again for performance
not
to reduce wear.
Larger CF for me means even more spare cells because my installations
won't have more stuff in there.
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This life is not the real thing.
It is not even in Beta.
If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
Net5501-70. Pxeboot off linux laptop with crossover cable. Laptop
hosts tftboot, dhcp, etc. Soekris is fine for home. And can push
70-80 meg second but gets crazy high interupts.
Pxeboot bsd.rd seems most straightforward without having to mess with
trying to close their stupid cases.
