[CentOS] Experience with Centos running off usb-stick(s)

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

cooleyr at gmail.com wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2011 8:27 AM, "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml at conversis.de 
> <mailto:dennisml at conversis.de>> wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  > I'm trying to build a redundant duo of firewalls/routers/gateways and I'm
>  > thinking about not putting any disks in them and instead using a 
> usb-stick
>  > raid-1 as storage.
>  > Has anyone any experience with this?
> 
> I simply wouldn't build a system that is dependent on USB for the rootfs 
> full-time, unless it's very unimportant.  I've seen USB ports get 
> disabled while in-use plenty of times.  Instead, an ATA to CF or SD 
> adapter can be had quite inexpensively.
> 

There are DOM's, IDE Disk-On-Module.

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