On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Muhammad Panji wrote: > >> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >> From: Muhammad Panji <sumodirjo at 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. Hi Keith thank you for the info. I will look at the archive. I just change the flash drive with another flash drive last monday and today the server error again. will reinstall the OS on a hard drive. Thank you. Regards, -- ----- Muhammad Panji http://www.panji.web.id http://www.kurungsiku.com http://sumodirjo.wordpress.com http://www.kurungsiku.web.id http://www.linuxbox.web.id