[CALUG] Loading DSL onto Compact Flash.

[Kelly Price]

On 8/18/06, Jason Dixon <jason at dixongroup.net> wrote:
> The sheer volume of reserve cells negates the limit of write cycles
> on any particular cell or group of cells.  "Fixed" might have been
> the wrong choice of words, but the point is that concerns surrounding
> routine writes to CF are simply not realized with "modern" flash media.
>
> P.S.  I'm not suggesting anyone build a compile farm off discarded
> Soekris/WRAP boxen and PNY CF media.  If you're already sending your
> syslog to a central logging server (which you should be), how much I/
> O do you really expect these systems to suffer anyways?

It makes me wonder if there's an embedded system that stacks a two
slot Cardbus system, a Mini-PCI slot, Ethernet, Compact flash storage,
USB and a Serial port in a small (size of PCMCIA card) area.  I'm
basically looking for the smallest travel router that runs Linux.

-- 
Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price
http://strredwolf.furrynet.com