Re: [CentOS] Experience with Centos running off usb-stick(s)
On Jul 21, 2011 8:27 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build a redundant duo of firewalls/routers/gateways and I'm thinking about not putting any disks in them and instead using a usb-stick raid-1 as storage. Has anyone any experience with this? I simply wouldn't build a system that is dependent on USB for the rootfs full-time, unless it's very unimportant. I've seen USB ports get disabled while in-use plenty of times. Instead, an ATA to CF or SD adapter can be had quite inexpensively. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Experience with Centos running off usb-stick(s)
On Thursday, July 21, 2011 05:26:47 PM Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build a redundant duo of firewalls/routers/gateways and I'm thinking about not putting any disks in them and instead using a usb-stick raid-1 as storage. Has anyone any experience with this? Since the machines will be running pretty much only iptables, conntrackd and keepalived there is not going to be a lot of disk activity going on and the plan is to do all the logging on a remote machine which should reduce the write activity on the sticks to almost zero during normal operation. I've already created a fairly minimal kickstart for such an installation but I'm wondering if there are any opinions out there on whether this is a feasible approach or if there are any gotchas I'm not aware of. I/we have done this on a few systems with vanilla CentOS and no problems. Do note however that not all usb-sticks are the same (performance can vary _a lot_). /Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Experience with Centos running off usb-stick(s)
cool...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 21, 2011 8:27 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de mailto:denni...@conversis.de wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build a redundant duo of firewalls/routers/gateways and I'm thinking about not putting any disks in them and instead using a usb-stick raid-1 as storage. Has anyone any experience with this? I simply wouldn't build a system that is dependent on USB for the rootfs full-time, unless it's very unimportant. I've seen USB ports get disabled while in-use plenty of times. Instead, an ATA to CF or SD adapter can be had quite inexpensively. There are DOM's, IDE Disk-On-Module. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Experience with Centos running off usb-stick(s)
Hi, I'm trying to build a redundant duo of firewalls/routers/gateways and I'm thinking about not putting any disks in them and instead using a usb-stick raid-1 as storage. Has anyone any experience with this? Since the machines will be running pretty much only iptables, conntrackd and keepalived there is not going to be a lot of disk activity going on and the plan is to do all the logging on a remote machine which should reduce the write activity on the sticks to almost zero during normal operation. I've already created a fairly minimal kickstart for such an installation but I'm wondering if there are any opinions out there on whether this is a feasible approach or if there are any gotchas I'm not aware of. Regards, Dennis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
