... thinking of creating > one or two RAMdisks, for all those temporary reads and ... and then mount this drive as for the busy directory. > > Does this make sense? If yes, how to do it? > You need memory file systems for that. It is very easy under ...

openbsd-misc - Girish Venkatachalam - Mar 27 2008 - 06:36

Speaking of RAMdisks, have you checked out Gigabyte i-RAM? Might be the right stuff for your need. On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: ...

openbsd-misc - Die Gestalt - Mar 27 2008 - 09:14

... of creating >one or two RAMdisks, for all those temporary reads ... sense? If yes, how to do it? Not really. The legend ... be worn out by now for all practical purposes. When I ... little firewalls handling roadwarrior VPNs for a financial services company of ...

openbsd-misc - Rod Whitworth - Mar 27 2008 - 20:09

... worked with one 8 GB drive, but not another > seemingly identical WD 8 GB ... a size, it will boot from it, if not, it declares a hardware > error and won't boot from anything. > > I wonder if a ... I've found that refuses to boot from CF in a converter so ...

openbsd-misc - Stuart Henderson - Mar 29 2008 - 17:01

... MB. It has worked with one 8 GB drive, but not another seemingly identical WD 8 GB drive, yet alone a ... found. If it displays a size, it will boot from it, if not, it declares a hardware error and won't boot from anything. I wonder if a 512 MB CF card ...

openbsd-misc - Douglas A. Tutty - Mar 29 2008 - 13:29

... MB. It has worked with one 8 GB drive, but not another >seemingly identical WD 8 GB drive, yet alone a ... . If it >displays a size, it will boot from it, if not, it declares a hardware >error and won't boot from anything. > >I wonder if a 512 MB CF card ...

openbsd-misc - Rod Whitworth - Mar 29 2008 - 17:44

On 3/28/08 1:20 AM, Rod Whitworth wrote: > The CF wearout meme needs to die. Specs, it's all about specs, it seems a fact to me that "standard" CF cards, as used in camera's, often without any technical specification other than "size", cannot be

openbsd-misc - chefren - Mar 27 2008 - 21:51

... harddisks. The Apacer cards I use are PhotoSteno III made for camera use and I cannot kill one. Maybe you can ... CF full of pix every day and erase them every night for 27 years and still not reach the write cycle limit. I cannot remember what brand ...

openbsd-misc - Rod Whitworth - Mar 27 2008 - 22:21

... as ordinary harddisks. maybe, maybe not. Rod's right, though... I' ... disk replacements. I agree, but not for the reasons usually given ... the unexpected downtime that counts, not the reason. Who the frick ... wish to set a goal for yourself of "I don't ...

openbsd-misc - Nick Holland - Mar 27 2008 - 23:07