"Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > What I'd like to be able to do is to just boot off > the CF (for low boot -times), Aren't most real disks faster than CF? (except in seek time) > but then hand over everything to a regular IDE disk; > swap, home, and other things that regularly change. > Having frequently-changing data on a CF will kill it > pretty fast with its limited write cycles. There's always ramdisk, NFS, etc. CF should be ok for simple server purposes like packet filtering, or as a thin client, or appliance. /Jonas Sundström. www.kirilla.com