@JMJ_coder
Yes this is generally a good idea, but considering limited life of flash you have to remember about these things:
- disable SWAP
- mount /tmp in RAM
- mount /var/tam in RAM
- disable all useless logging in /var/log (by config or by links to /dev/null if you are lazy)
- or even mount /var/log in RAM
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666
While this is a neat idea.. CF cards are considerably slower then their IDE/SATA counterparts.  |
That depends on CF you use, there are CF's like Corsair Votager, Buffalo, OCZ Rally2 or Patriot Exporter which provide constant 24MB/s write + 32MB/s read with about 0.1-0.9 ms random access time.
Single drive may not be as fast as harddrive, but RAID0 of 2-4 or even RAID5 of them would give you constant 80MB/s write + 120MB/s read with about 1ms RAT which is comparable to today's SSD's.
It would be very easy do do such thing, 1 even slow CF for / + software RAID0/5 in 4 fast CF's.
You may wath some performance tests of CF's here:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mem...h-roundup.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mem...oundup_11.html