From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Dec 21 18:22:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD2D37B401; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:22:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from search.sparks.net (d-207-5-180-136.gwi.net [207.5.180.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB26643EE6; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:22:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmiller@sparks.net) Received: by search.sparks.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id D1FE6D988; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:22:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by search.sparks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C268AD987; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:22:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:22:12 -0500 (EST) From: David Miller To: randall ehren Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tripwire on compact flash In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, randall ehren wrote: > hi, > i setup a freebsd system running off of a compact flash card. i know that CF > cards have a limited life of read & writes so i wanted to know if running > tripwire on the card was a bad idea...? It's fine if you have it mounted read only virtually all the time. You don't say what you're using the system for, so we really can't guess whether that's possible or not. As for tripwire, flash would be an OK place to store the checksums. it's better if you have physical access to the system to have to change a write enable switch on a removable media. If you're talking about a remote system flash is as good as anything else. --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message