>Flash wears out Pal. Its only more "reliable" as a read-only medium.
>This argument is so old and so wrong thats its become totally nauseating.
>First of all, tens of thousands of people are doing it (HD-based routers
>running unix that is), mostly ISPs who have a much higher requirement
>than a corporate network with a lousy T1. Secondly, hard drives today
>have an MTBF of 10 years or more, so what is your basis for this
>widely-held yet absurd "opinion"?
Actually it depends on how you use the flash-disk. Your arguement is valid
only if you use the flash disk for more than just kernel/config
parameters i.e you mount it and continously trash it with it writes. Most
people who argue for flash disks use them to just boot the system. There
are normally very few writes -- mostly config updates.
Incase you were wondering about logs -- redirected syslog is your friend.
cheers,
jamal
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