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

cooleyr@gmail.com wrote:

On Jul 21, 2011 8:27 AM, "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml@conversis.de mailto:dennisml@conversis.de> wrote:

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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

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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.