Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:33:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Hunt <jhunt@lynden.on.ca> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG, Communications Machine <ITStaff@wmptl.com> Subject: Re: Compact Flash vs ATA Disks Message-ID: <20020610173028.P89310-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <001401c210a7$f72b2d20$a800000a@transcon>
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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. > [ ... snip ... ] > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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