On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Muhammad Panji wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Muhammad Panji sumodirjo@gmail.com Subject: [CentOS] Installing OS on Flash Drive on Server
Hi All, On my gateway server I'm Installing CentOS on a flashdrive. is that a bad idea? the server keep hang, I can ping the server from the LAN and from the internet, the internet connection from LAN to internet is OK but another service is down, ssh, VPN (PPTPD) and another service. Even the console is unresponsive so I have to reset the server. Last time when I still can do SSH to server the / drive is mounted read only, when I try to remount rw it said error write protected but the flash drive itself have no write protection. I'm wondering is using Flashdrive on server OS is a bad idea? anyone have similar experience? thank you. regards,
Hi Muhammad. You might like to check the mailing-list archives for June, as there was quite a long discusiion on using Flash USB drives an SSD's for Centos installations.
I think the general conclusions were that Flass drives are not really designed for this, and will wear out quickly, and the SDD's can fail without any warning whatsoever - and bang does your OS and/or your data.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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