[gentoo-amd64] OT: Need advice on usb thumb drive boot

["P.V.Anthony" <pvantony@singnet.com.sg>]

Hi,

I am going to build a filesever for my office. We are going to put in 15 
drives in the case. There will be 4gb of ram.

I was thinking of putting the OS on two thumbdrives raided as raid 1. 
The reason for this is so that I can dedicate all the 15 drives for data 
storage and there is no more space to place two additional drives for 
the OS.

 From the net, I gather that flash drives have a limited write/erase. Is 
there a way that this can be overcome?

I was thinking of aufs. From what I understand, with aufs all the write 
is done only once when we shutdown the server. In this way everything is 
in the ram until a sync command is sent. This way the flash drives will 
last longer. Is this correct?

I could also make a symbolic link for the /var and /tmp to the main drives.

Is there a better way? Please advice.

P.V.Anthony
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