On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 11:01, Peter Arremann wrote:
On Sunday 04 September 2005 09:47, Andreas Rogge wrote:
Wouldn't it be much easier to use an IDE Flash Module for that? You can get 128 MB IDE Flash for direct plugging to the ATA-Connector on the mainboard for as few as 30 € (which is definitely not an issue, if you have disk-arrays greater than 2 TB...).
Not a good idea... CF isn't meant for constant re-writes... you'd have to run a special filesystem like JFFS that none of the major linux distributions know how to do as an install... CF sized harddisks aren't much better - they aren't meant to run 24/7 and so on...
First, a USB flash drive should be inexpensive and sufficient. Almost everything these days should boot from USB. As for re-writing, how often do you write anything to /boot? However, like a boot iso, the main problem is just that the scripts to set it up aren't included. The mkbootbootdisk script might do just about the right thing for usb, though.
If you can at all efford it, you should always have a set of mirrored OS disks and then do raid 0+1 or 5, depending on your space/speed/redundancy needs, for the data.
If you have more than 2TB you might not miss the space, but it seems like a waste to dedicate a whole pair of hard drives to be able to boot, which you might only do once a year or so. I'd consider the ability to generate a bootable iso to be a good thing in any case, now that floppies no longer work.