From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HMHEz-0004sF-Uy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:20:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1S5ImpI024821; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:18:48 GMT Received: from smtp17.singnet.com.sg (smtp17.singnet.com.sg [165.21.6.27]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1S5Ikq6024811 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:18:47 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.118] (bb219-75-71-108.singnet.com.sg [219.75.71.108]) by smtp17.singnet.com.sg (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l1S5IjiQ026510 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:18:45 +0800 Message-ID: <45E510B6.8060104@singnet.com.sg> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:18:46 +0800 From: "P.V.Anthony" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] OT: Need advice on usb thumb drive boot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9f1db648-553a-401c-a8ed-38596263c8c2 X-Archives-Hash: 8e47293cfe89637a9de3f5c116dce88b 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 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list