[Soekris] "Squashed" versions of FreeBSD

[Crist J. Clark]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Crist J. Clark writes:
> > My only real worry is that I've not broken out all of the stuff from 
> > the /var that I should and I may get "dead spots" on my CF from too 
> > many write-cycles earlier than I need to, but at $40, it's a risk I 
> > can take. I'd be curious about any advice on that front.
> 
> $40 isn't much. The sudden and unexpected downtime if/when the box 
> breaks may be a great deal worse. Depends how simple and cheap it will 
> be to get it back up.

I may be wrong, but I didn't think the failure mode would be
a "sudden and unexpected" downtime. I had assumed I'd start to
see read/write errors like you see when a HDD slowly gets
bad sectors. However, rethinking that, I'm not sure what to
expect.
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Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark at alum.mit.edu