[openbeos] Re: compact flash

  • From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:55:12 +0100 CET

"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




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