Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:23:32 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nejc_=A9koberne?= <nejc@skoberne.net>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070309152230.024d46d0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <45F1BF10.7040109@skoberne.net> References: <45F1BF10.7040109@skoberne.net>
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You will want the swap to some other device such a a regular hard drive. A
flash drive can get worn out cells and fail.
-Derek
At 02:09 PM 3/9/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nejc_=A9koberne?= wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I plan to install a FreeBSD 6.2 router/gateway/DHCP server on a EPIA
>box with 1GB Transcend IDE Flash drive. Since Transcend says that
>this device is capable of "10,000 insertion/removal cycles" I assume
>that I must minimize the number of writes to the drive. It is okay
>with me if I have to configure syslog to log to another machine.
>
>Any suggestions/instructions how to achieve this? Any experienced
>users regarding this matter?
>
>Thanks for ideas and help.
>Nejc
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