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On Wed, 28 May 2008 01:14:01 +0800 |
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"P.V.Anthony" <pvantony@×××××××××××.sg> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> So far I have building servers for internal use, using Compact Flash |
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> on IDE connector. Using ext3 file system. Only about a year of use. |
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> So far it is great. |
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Ext3? You know that journalling will cause additional wear? I'd use |
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Ext2 but it might depend on your use-cases which will happen more |
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frequently: data loss through worn-out flash memory or data loss |
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through corrupted filesystems after a crash. |
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> Just got a simple cheap Dell tower server with AMD opteron chip. The |
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> motherboard has no IDE connector. I think more and more motherboards |
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> are coming with only SATA connectors. |
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> The good thing is that the motherboard has a internal usb connector. |
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> That means that a 4Gb thumb drive can be connected onto the |
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> motherboard internally. |
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> Now I have a choice of getting a SATA to CF adaptor or just a thumb |
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> drive. Which way should I go? Thumb Drive or CF? |
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Hmm, I found thumb drives to be cheaper than CF and faster as long as |
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you don't use those really expensive CFs which support DMA. On the |
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other hand, if you use those DMA-enabled CFs, you might get a better |
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transfer rate and less CPU-utilization because USB relies on the CPU |
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for many actions (afaik). I've never tried it, though. |
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> Second problem. |
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> I loved using CF on IDE because of the the drive is called hda instead |
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> of sda. This way it is very easy to call on the hda to boot up without |
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> confusing with the data drives on the SATA. |
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> Need to find a way to fix the naming of the drives regardless of how |
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> many drives are connected. I always had the problem of the names of |
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> drives changing when one of the drives is removed and then rebooted. |
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> It will try to boot up from the wrong drive. If anyone knows of the |
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> solution, please share. |
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There was a topic "boot Gentoo from USB key" on this list, recently |
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(started on 08/04/30). You can look into it at gmane.org. Basic idea was |
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to use an initramfs-script to determine the root-partition by its UID. |
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BTW: UIDs and/or volume labels are the way to go if you want to avoid |
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problems with changing device names. |
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Hope this helps |
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Florian Philipp |