re: I know there are a number of end users running full installs on CF and I haven't heard of any of them killing a CF either. Theoretically the card should die in less than a year....
To me the card is not so likely as to die wholesale as it is to have sectors die here and there. These deaths may be much less obvious, especially with most of the OS running in RAM. How much disk handling of errors does FreeBSD cope with? It seems to me it may be prudent to have some sort of automated CF scan should be done checking its memory spaces. Should we CF users add a cron job for something to proactively pick up errors? Kind regards David Hingston ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Buechler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <support@pfsense.com> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 4:05 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] alix (any verison) on a CF harddisk - full version ? On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:31:29PM +1000, digger wrote: > >> The end result is I can confirm that the full version does happily run >> on a CF card and ALIX board. > > If this is a consumer flash device mounted r/w probability of failure > will go up considerably after half a year, or so. > This is technically correct, but we have several developers who run full installs on run of the mill CF cards and have yet to kill a single one. but I know of installs running much longer than that with no problems. Just be aware that this is a possibility. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
