From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jan 6 13:17: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 731FB37B401; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:17:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693C143E4A; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:17:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h06LGt1e063307; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 14:16:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 14:16:40 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030106.141640.87998466.imp@bsdimp.com> To: randall@ucsb.edu Cc: dmiller@sparks.net, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tripwire on compact flash From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: randall ehren writes: : well the device sits in a network closet and only has one flash card in it. i : suppose we could stick a floppy drive on it, but i was mostly concerned about : the heavy read operations on the CF card and how damaging that would be. Not at all. The number of writes is limited to something on the order of 10^7 or so, but the number of reads is basically unlimited. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message