Re: preparation for installation

I've been told, by an unreliable source, that the microdrive
heats up after a few hours use.  The source had used it in
a camera - quite a different environment.  I'll be testing it
out, but if you all have experience....

That said:
  No, you don't want to write to CF too often.  But why do you
need to?

What writes?  Syslog?  Pish, off to another machine.  swap?
er, don't swap.  Yeah, I'd love to find a single board computer
with 512MB-1GB of RAM, 2 ethernet and a cf boot (and pccards?).
Basically a 4501soekris with a low power CPU that can handle
more RAM.  StrongARM would be neat, but I'd want the HiFn card
supported for that.

I have one soekris setup as a DHCP server doing DDNS to a real
BIND9 server (primary zone on a real machine on the 'net) using
TSIG.  No "scripting workarounds" that DJB is so fond of.

I have a /var/mfs/ mounted (using mfs, obv) and have /var/run/
and various files pointing into there.  I populate the area
on startup for basic functionality.  I've written about it
before, so hit the archives.

The machine gets rebooted perhaps every month on bad months.
It's been up 4 months at a time.  I do lose DHCP leases on a
reboot, but in my environment (fairly small - serves home and
neighbors), that's survivable (clients ask for old IP address,
it gives it to them, even tho there is no lease).

Quoting clarence chan ([email protected]):
> I am plainning to install embsd-2.0 or OpenBSD-3.1 (limited packages by
> myself) when my cf-ide adapter is ready.  At the moment, I am wonder if CF
> or micro-drive to be used for the system.  I had read a message that the CF
> will be easy destroyed with frequently read and write.  So I would like to
> request folks to share your experiece with me.
> 
> I will use the system as firewall with following functions:
>    - dynamic dns (ddclient)
>    - web, dns, mail server re-direct. (ie accept requests and distribute
> them to the appropriated server machines).
> 
> Is embsd-2.0 suitable to handle the list jobs above.  For thhe ddclient, I
> can prepare it from other machine (OpenBSD-3.1-stable).