24 Sep
2008
24 Sep
'08
8:42 p.m.
Gene Buckle wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Doc Shipley wrote:
If you run Linux with the CF marked as a normal HD, it will cause issues
(any file access will touch the FS), but I think the newer Linux kernels
have an option to turn that off for certain drives.
I can vouch that running Linux with a CF does not kill the card, at
least when configured to use CF. Pyramid Linux is a special distro used
for folks who want to gateway their cellular air cards to Wifi. It
mounts the entire OS as read-only, with a small RAM disk to handle logs
and stuff that needs to be R/W.
Jim
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Chuck Guzis wrote:
Doc, there's a whole pile of Amiga users out there (found 'em today!)
that would argue that point with you. They're using them a lot on the
Amiga 1200, 500 and 2000 without issue.
g.
I've toyed with the idea of setting up a Linux box with a
decent-size (512M) hunk of RAM,turning off swap and using it as a
network mailserver with CF instead of IDE disk to conserve power.
I'm not sure how long the CF would last. Assuming, say, 1000 emails
(including spam) a day worst-case, I might see one fail in less than
a year, depending upon where the writes landed. Leveling would
help, of course, but do CF cards auto-level, or does that
responsibility fall upon the system using them?
I can vouch for the fact that running a normal OS on CF will kill
the card in a hurry, even without swap.