Richard Daemon wrote:

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> I do pretty much the same as this, for years now on WRAP, Soekris and

> now ALIX too (with BIOS 0.99b) but my fstab is a little different.

> I install them via PXEbooting OpenBSD and they all run 4.2-stable

> built on another, fast system, make via release(8) basically.

I'll have to look at "release".
> ... Never had a problem with any of these systems or the CF cards.
Mine problem with CF is that they are sloooooow to access and worse for

writing.
However regarding the limited read/write cycles, CF are apparently

becoming much more durable than earlier.  One thing I note is that the

ones I have all have 5 year warranties and where I am using them it

would troublesome, but not catastrophic, for the CF to be sent back

while under warranty.
> ...

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> Some contents on my CF card (config files, etc.) are remotely backed

> up via rsync over SSH and/or tar over SSH to a remote system (and a

> local backup too).

I have both, too, but am considering rolling a second bsd.rd with

non-standard options like SSHd.  though I can't quite think of how that

would be useful, since I usually have to have console access anyway if I

mess things up so badly as to require a restoration.  Experiments with

/dev usually caused that.
regards,

-Lars