Hello Tim, > IIRC, there's a problem with wearing out CF cards after prolonged use > (1E6 writes or so). Whether that's better or worse than the average > failure rate of a hard drive for this particular scenario is for you to > decide - just a reminder of the limitations of flash memory as disks.
That is a risk if you use the CF like a hard disc. I use it like a CD, using a variant of this method outlined on the forums http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-244837.html There are no writes to the CF, although for a firewall you'd need somewhere to send logfiles, either save them to an nfs/cifs mounted drive or use logrotate to mail them out every day. -- Neil Bothwick The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem.
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