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From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
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Subject: CF cards wear out?
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Not related directly to FreeBSD so figure chat would be more appropriate.

Recently I got recommendations on this list the Soekris machines and
M0n0wall for a firewall. On the M0n0Wall archives I found the following:


>nothing is written to the CF card (it is usually mounted read-only), to
>minimize the chance of wearing it out.

Do CF cards "wear out"? Aren't they like memory?