Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 06:50:43 +0100 From: "James Mansion" <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> To: "Jim Thompson" <jim@netgate.com> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortel.com>, small@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD's embedded agenda Message-ID: <HCEPKPMCAJLDGJIBCLGHOEFMFGAA.james@wgold.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <2EFA38F2-77CE-429D-A9DE-9E764EEAA8CB@netgate.com>
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>Might want to re-think your argument in terms of a system with 32MB >of ram >and 4MB of NAND or NOR flash. Why? You have enough RAM to have a small memory disk for writable stuff. Presumably the device does not run an application that expects to write data except occassional status stuff. I'm assuming a small number of kilobytes for this. And you can force a status dump out when you need to. BNormally I'd expect readonly-root, but sometimes you want to be 'readonly except when I want to save a change in config', right? You're not going to run squid caches off a flash, wear levelling or not.
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