Hi Richard,
I was talking about write speeds, not about CF card lifespan. And yes,
of course it also depends on what people are going to push into the DB.
I wouldn't set up a CVS server on a CF card myself, just because in
general those cards are still quite slow, the affordable ones at least.
Bi
Hi Oleg,
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 10:10 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote:
> Bill Maas wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:15 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote:
> >
> > > Hey there, I'm thinking of getting the new net5501 board and would like
> > > to find out the common way people use CF cards. I assume the bo
Bill Maas wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:15 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote:
Hey there, I'm thinking of getting the new net5501 board and would like to find out the common way people use CF cards. I assume the board can boot from a CF card, and my question is whether can I create an ext
> Assume the card is a cheap consumer card and tolerates 250,000 writes.
> Then the card's wear-leveling won't help you, and the card will break
> down after only about nine years.
Operant word "only"; let's put the scale into perspective:
Crank it down even more - assume the card's even cheaper
Bill Maas writes:
> It depends on the application you have in mind. For a router, the CF
> is perfect, for a DB backend server it most likely
> isn't. Maintaining a swap partition is also not a viable option with
> a CF card.
This isn't actually true. Even the older CF cards have "good enough"
wea
Arnt: Just for my information, do you know how many write (maybe read
too) operations support a standard CF ?
Le 10 oct. 08 à 13:01, Arnt Gulbrandsen a écrit :
> Stuart Henderson writes:
>> On 2008-10-10, Davy MELINA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Use JFFS2 filesystem on your CF not EXT3FS or u
Davy MELINA writes:
> Arnt: Just for my information, do you know how many write (maybe read
> too) operations support a standard CF ?
Millions and millions of writes.
Each particular block supports a few hundred thousand. Maybe a million
or more. Depends on the card. So you can overwrite each
Stuart Henderson writes:
> On 2008-10-10, Davy MELINA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Use JFFS2 filesystem on your CF not EXT3FS or use TMPFS for your /var.
>
> CF already does wear-levelling in the card's controller. And longevity
> is *far* better than many people seem to assume.
People aren't r
Oleg Smolsky wrote:
> Hey there, I'm thinking of getting the new net5501 board and would like
> to find out the common way people use CF cards. I assume the board can
> boot from a CF card, and my question is whether can I create an ext3fs
> partition on the CF, mount it on / and use it as if I
On 2008-10-10, Davy MELINA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Use JFFS2 filesystem on your CF not EXT3FS or use TMPFS for your /var.
CF already does wear-levelling in the card's controller.
And longevity is *far* better than many people seem to assume.
You may want to arrange for read-only filesystems
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:15 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote:
> Hey there, I'm thinking of getting the new net5501 board and would
> like to find out the common way people use CF cards. I assume the
> board can boot from a CF card, and my question is whether can I create
> an ext3fs partition on the CF,
Use JFFS2 filesystem on your CF not EXT3FS or use TMPFS for your /var.
Le 10 oct. 08 à 01:15, Oleg Smolsky a écrit :
> Hey there, I'm thinking of getting the new net5501 board and would
> like to find out the common way people use CF cards. I assume the
> board can boot from a CF card, and my
You can use it just like any normal IDE drive.
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:15:05 -0700
Oleg Smolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey there, I'm thinking of getting the new net5501 board and would like to
> find out the common way people use CF cards. I assume the board can boot from
> a CF card, and
Hey there, I'm thinking of getting
the new net5501 board and would like to find out the common way people
use CF cards. I assume the board can boot from a CF card, and my
question is whether can
I create an ext3fs partition on the CF, mount it on / and use it as if
I had a normal IDE/SATA drive
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