Rootfs on sheevaplug without killing my sd cards / usb sticks

[Karsten König <remur@gmx.net>]

Heya,

I ruined 1 expensive sd card and two usb flash sticks already with a basic 
debian system, even though /var is already on a seperate stick, I don't want 
to dive into it too much to find out what process is responsible.

So how do people cope with that, in the forum there is flashhybrid mentioned, 
I will definitly use it in the next iteration, I also plan writing the rootfs 
to the NAND as I have more trust in the wear leveling of ubifs then sandisk =/


Is this a bad idea? Will the NAND be dead in like half a year already when 
running a squeeze box as small time server? Any other totally different 
methods? flashhybrid looks very interesting but it's also unmaintained, a 
complete read only rootfs is sadly not really possible =( Any other method to 
reducing the writes to the systems even more?


Thanks in advance for the ideas! =)
Karsten