From owner-freebsd-security Wed Sep 29 6:59:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C6C015056 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 06:59:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 6099 invoked from network); 29 Sep 1999 13:59:11 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 1999 13:59:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:59:11 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Rudi Opperman Cc: Mike Holling , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Help me win the MS-Proxy/ipfw war In-Reply-To: <000F7337.C21325@dtt.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Rudi Opperman wrote: > Hi > > A little bit off topic but... > > I understand the benefits of diskless operations - but are floppies/stiffies > such a good idea? Isn't their mtf worse than hdd? Would booting off some other > type of media (zip /cd / 120mbfloppy), configured readonly, be better? Maybe. It would cost more, though. The disk only gets used at boot, which should be only at powerfail time, right? So you read the disk a couple times a year. I wouldn't be too worried about it, especially if you aren't using it for remotely located stuff. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message