On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 16:11, Jay Leafey wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> >
> > everything these days should boot from USB. As for re-writing, how
> > often do you write anything to /boot?
> >
>
> I think the problem is not so much explicitly WRITING to the CF device,
> but unless you have it mounted with the 'noatime' option it will get
> written to every time you access a file on that filesystem. I'm not
> sure if that would eliminate all writes to the filesystem, either.
/boot doesn't have to be mounted unless you are updating it.
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