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...
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.
Peter.