From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 12 00:54:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6044416A400 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:54:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paulh@bdug.org.au) Received: from mail.bdug.org.au (mail.bdug.org.au [202.72.170.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8397713C459 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:54:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paulh@bdug.org.au) Received: from w2k2 (w2k2.bdug.org.au [192.168.0.102]) by mail.bdug.org.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CED9B83E; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:24:34 +0900 (WST) From: "Paul Hamilton" To: =?iso-8859-2?Q?'Nejc_=A9koberne'?= , "'User Questions'" Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:25:22 +0900 Message-ID: <074301c7643c$ec68e060$6600a8c0@w2k2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6822 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 Thread-Index: AcdihwntsQUJw6aVTGG0+Rs5oIaDAABtIkcw In-Reply-To: <45F1BF10.7040109@skoberne.net> Importance: Normal X-bdug-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-bdug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-bdug-MailScanner-From: paulh@bdug.org.au X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Subject: RE: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:54:17 -0000 Hi, I have played around with using an EPIA 600-PD (Fanless Dual NICS), with 256MB RAM. Works well, however, a buildworld takes around 4 hours ;-) I am booting from a 512MB CF card, and run /var and /tmp from a RAM drive. Upon startup, the CF card /var and /tmp dir. are copied into the ram drives, the rest is Read Only. When it shuts down (not very often), the ram drive contents are copied back to the CF card. You could backup the ram drive to CF more frequently if required. I run off of 12V battery, so power failures don't affect me all that much. You could monitor the Battery/UPS for power failure conditions if needed etc. Running FreeBSD 6.0. Cheers, Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of=20 > Nejc =A9koberne > Sent: Saturday, 10 March 2007 5:10 AM > To: User Questions > Subject: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive >=20 >=20 > Hello, >=20 > I plan to install a FreeBSD 6.2 router/gateway/DHCP server on=20 > a EPIA box with 1GB Transcend IDE Flash drive. Since=20 > Transcend says that this device is capable of "10,000=20 > insertion/removal cycles" I assume that I must minimize the=20 > number of writes to the drive. It is okay with me if I have=20 > to configure syslog to log to another machine. >=20 > Any suggestions/instructions how to achieve this? Any=20 > experienced users regarding this matter? >=20 > Thanks for ideas and help. > Nejc > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list=20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to=20 > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 > --=20 > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. >=20 >=20 >=20 --=20 This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.