Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Richard Hector wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 21:38 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> > I was thinking to let my firewall
>> > run on a CF drive. The last one served for 10years, so ...
>> 
>> Your firewall can probably run with near-0 writes (or even with exactly
>> 0 writes), so your CF will easily last centuries.
> 
> Especially if you can use a syslogd on another machine.
> 
> Richard

thanks, I should take account of that. Now it's in "testing" and there is
nothing special I did for the filesystem. I think I should make it write as
less as possible. i.e. disable swap and move stuff to memory (ram disk or
so). It was helpful discussion for me.

regards