<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Paul Bender <<a href="mailto:pebender@san.rr.com">pebender@san.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">David Whyte wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Ray Lischner <<a href="mailto:linux@tempest-sw.com">linux@tempest-sw.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I decided to use a conventional SATA disk drive for my FE. It's cheap,<br>
>> easy, and completely silent because the system doesn't touch the disk<br>
>> once it's up and running. I don't see the disk LED light during normal<br>
>> playback activities.<br>
><br>
> Yeah, I am leaning towards this now. I completely forgot about the<br>
> write limitation and I am sceptical of everything going smooth with<br>
> the IDE adaptor and the like. I can get a cheap 80GB IDE Western<br>
> Digital HDD for ~$80AUD, which is fine with me. I doubt myth will<br>
> touch the disk after boot up anyways if I put 1GB (or more) of RAM in<br>
> it seeing how this is a FE only (at this stage).<br>
><br>
> Thanks for all the pointers though guys, I am glad I asked here first.<br>
<br>
</div>In general, Linux distributions will do things such as write<br>
/var/log/messages after they boot. However, if you redirect your syslog<br>
to another machine or reconfigure your syslog to log only errors, then<br>
you can avoid this.<br>
<br>
For what it is worth, live distributions and distributions such as<br>
MiniMyth are designed to never write their storage medium, because they<br>
expect their storage medium to be read only. Therefore, these<br>
distributions will only would only write your compact flash storage when<br>
you update the distribution.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Would things be better if there was a small disk in RAM for stuff like /tmp and /var? Then you could pretty much have / be a read-only file system, with all writable stuff copied in the ramdisk and then lost on reboot.<br>