FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

[Paul Hamilton]

Hi,

I have played around with using an EPIA 600-PD (Fanless Dual NICS), with
256MB RAM.  Works well, however, a buildworld takes around 4 hours  ;-)

I am booting from a 512MB CF card, and run /var and /tmp from a RAM drive.
Upon startup, the CF card /var and /tmp dir. are copied into the ram drives,
the rest is Read Only.  When it shuts down (not very often), the ram drive
contents are copied back to the CF card.  You could backup the ram drive to
CF more frequently if required.  I run off of 12V battery, so power failures
don't affect me all that much. You could monitor the Battery/UPS for power
failure conditions if needed etc.  Running FreeBSD 6.0.

Cheers,

Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Nejc Škoberne
> Sent: Saturday, 10 March 2007 5:10 AM
> To: User Questions
> Subject: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive
> 
> 
> 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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