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From: Jason Hunt <jhunt@lynden.on.ca>
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Subject: Re: Compact Flash vs ATA Disks
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Communications Machine wrote:

> I need a comparison in terms primarily of performance and reliability
> between using compact flash to boot vs a standard ATA disk drive on a
> machine used primarily as a router/firewall.
>
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>

Check out http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/solid-state/

Looks pretty interesting to me.  You could do the same with a hard-drive
that is mounted read-only.  The nice part about doing this is that it is
stateless, so you don't have to wait for fsck if it crashes.


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