Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:13:46 -0700 From: soralx@cydem.org To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: alwin.roosen@webline.be, koitsu@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Would a Transcend USB Flash Module of 2GB work? Message-ID: <20080625071346.03709a9c@soralx> In-Reply-To: <50A3BEAB67F03F44A2A063D55FC14D37119168@sbs2003.Webline.local> References: <50A3BEAB67F03F44A2A063D55FC14D37119163@sbs2003.Webline.local> <073DF92AAE3443F79BA23004D60ED8AA@Webline.local> <50A3BEAB67F03F44A2A063D55FC14D37119168@sbs2003.Webline.local>
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> The purpose of this is to build a very simple DNS server which is > controlled by some PHP command line scripting. It won't do much writing > at all since it loads all DNS information from a separate > database-server. Therefore I thought a very simple server without moving > parts like unreliable disks would be the perfect match. I could make a > copy of that dongle in case it ever breaks and be assured it would run > for years and years. Forgot to mention in my last email: if you need reliability, then don't use USB flash. I'm testing ZFS on the USB drives array, and a few days after I set it up, I've already seen a CRC error from ZFS -- that's data corruption (irrecoverable, needless to say). Even for a DNS server, USB flash is no good (unless all you use it for is bootstrap -- no writing or reading afterwards). [SorAlx] ridin' VS1400
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