From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 5 5: 7:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA44A37B401 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 05:07:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA07A43EB2 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 05:07:24 -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 h05D7M1e053079; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 06:07:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 06:06:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030105.060626.74232678.imp@bsdimp.com> To: marck@rinet.ru Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd running on a cdrom From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030105131030.X264@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20030105001014.GA76756@cs.huji.ac.il> <20030105.001255.53237870.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030105131030.X264@woozle.rinet.ru> 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20030105131030.X264@woozle.rinet.ru> Dmitry Morozovsky writes: : Well, while I'd certainly agree with you regarding reliability (BTW, how many : _read_ cycles do contemporary flashdisks support?), there is at least one major : question: where to boot from? especially in the case of standalone : moving-parts-free router ;-) Read cycles is very huge, like 10^10 or so. The CF parts can be made bootable, so not a problem. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message