FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Fri Mar 9 21:24:09 UTC 2007


You will want the swap to some other device such a a regular hard drive.  A 
flash drive can get worn out cells and fail.

         -Derek


At 02:09 PM 3/9/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nejc_=A9koberne?= wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I plan to install a FreeBSD 6.2 router/gateway/DHCP server on a EPIA
>box with 1GB Transcend IDE Flash drive. Since Transcend says that
>this device is capable of "10,000 insertion/removal cycles" I assume
>that I must minimize the number of writes to the drive. It is okay
>with me if I have to configure syslog to log to another machine.
>
>Any suggestions/instructions how to achieve this? Any experienced
>users regarding this matter?
>
>Thanks for ideas and help.
>Nejc
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