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Florian Philipp pisze: |
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> On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 18:27 +0000, James wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> I have a firewall that is built pretty minimally on a P3 and |
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>> and old 4 gig ide disk: |
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>> /dev/hda3 2068348 1668104 400244 81% / |
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>> /dev/hda1 100728 40452 60276 41% /boot |
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>> I have a 4 gig Cf card (sandisk) and a ide-cf card that should |
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>> make the CF card look like an ide hard drive. |
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>> I've been searching for a wiki or something that describes the general |
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>> sequence of events to migrate the existing gentoo system to the |
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>> CF/ide disk, with no luck. |
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>> I did find this page: |
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>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Mounting_a_block_device_with_JFFS2 |
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>> But it seems vague(outdated) and missing many steps. Or |
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>> am I confused? I'm just looking for some outline or verbose |
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>> steps to replace an ide drive on a system with a CF/ide drive |
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>> and jffs2, as I have many systems that I'd like to do this with, |
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>> for core reliability on minimalistic gentoo servers. I plan |
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>> on having additional space on these systems (when needed) |
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>> via NFS. |
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>> Any help or ideas are greatly appreciated. |
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>> James |
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> As far as I know you won't need jffs2 (or any other fs for flash |
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> memory). It is meant to be used on embedded devices that directly access |
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> the flash memory. In your case, the CF-disk takes care of wear leveling. |
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> Just use ext2. However, you could still get problems because, as far as |
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> I know, wear leveling needs to be tuned for the FS and most probably no |
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> one tuned the CF-disk for ext2. Maybe you could use fat instead... |
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I did this sort of system a while ago. I've used 1GB card with gentoo |
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and cf-ide adapter. There are some tricky parts that nobody mentions. |
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One of them is that I wasn't able to boot from my 1GB "hard drive" when |
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it was connected via 80 pin ide cable, I've dig up some old 40 pin ata |
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cable and it worked. |
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Other things you have to remeber concern file system usage, you musn't |
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create swap partition, disable local syslog, log rotation, turn |
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everything except desired daemons etc. |
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regards |
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dexter |
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