> i've been contemplating making my auth server a 9picpu booting from local, > but SD reliability is the drawback.
I believe the pi will run with an external flash or hard drive, abet slowly and using a powered USB hub. you could boot the kernel from the sd card but mount the external device everywhere you need to write things, like /sys/log and /adm/keys This would give you the speed of flash but the reliability of a magnetic disk or flash drive. You could even use multiple external flash drives with fs(3). Just some random ideas. -Steve
