[mythtv-users] New Frontend, Any gotchas with Compact Flash storage

[Matthew Asplund]

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:

> David Whyte wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Ray Lischner <linux at tempest-sw.com>
> wrote:
> >>  I decided to use a conventional SATA disk drive for my FE. It's cheap,
> >>  easy, and completely silent because the system doesn't touch the disk
> >>  once it's up and running. I don't see the disk LED light during normal
> >>  playback activities.
> >
> > Yeah, I am leaning towards this now.  I completely forgot about the
> > write limitation and I am sceptical of everything going smooth with
> > the IDE adaptor and the like.  I can get a cheap 80GB IDE Western
> > Digital HDD for ~$80AUD, which is fine with me.  I doubt myth will
> > touch the disk after boot up anyways if I put 1GB (or more) of RAM in
> > it seeing how this is a FE only (at this stage).
> >
> > Thanks for all the pointers though guys, I am glad I asked here first.
>
> In general, Linux distributions will do things such as write
> /var/log/messages after they boot. However, if you redirect your syslog
> to another machine or reconfigure your syslog to log only errors, then
> you can avoid this.
>
> For what it is worth, live distributions and distributions such as
> MiniMyth are designed to never write their storage medium, because they
> expect their storage medium to be read only. Therefore, these
> distributions will only would only write your compact flash storage when
> you update the distribution.
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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.
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