[ale] CF card as disk drive

[Jeff Hubbs]

Chris -

Get one of the MicroDrive-style CF cards and stop worrying about write 
cycles.

- Jeff

Chris Woodfield wrote:
> I'm rebuilding ye olde firewall server, and I'd like to go with a 
> CF-based disk this time. I have a working CF-to-IDE adapter already, 
> but I'd like to know if there's any info out there as to which 
> brands/models of CF cards have the longest write cycle ratings. I'll 
> be using the CF card as a normal drive, but I plan on the following 
> system adjustments to limit disk writes:
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> - No swapfile
> - syslogd/klogd configured to log to remote server
> - ramdisk for other often-updated files (dhcp.leases, /var/lock/, any 
> others to suggest?)
>
> What brand/model flash would one suggest if the goal is to have the 
> highest write cycle capacity?
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