[ale] CF card as disk drive

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 15:44 -0500, Chris Woodfield wrote:
> I'm rebuilding ye olde firewall server, and I'd like to go with a CF- 
> based disk this time. I have a working CF-to-IDE adapter already, but  
> I'd like to know if there's any info out there as to which brands/ 
> models of CF cards have the longest write cycle ratings. I'll be using  
> the CF card as a normal drive, but I plan on the following system  
> adjustments to limit disk writes:

> - No swapfile
> - syslogd/klogd configured to log to remote server
> - ramdisk for other often-updated files (dhcp.leases, /var/lock/, any  
> others to suggest?)

> What brand/model flash would one suggest if the goal is to have the  
> highest write cycle capacity?

	Mount the drives with the noatime option or you will be writing to the
inodes each time a file is accessed, impacting your write cycle and CF
card lifetime.

> -C

	Mike
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