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To build a compact, headless host, I'd like to use a CompactFlash instead of an IDE drive, and connect the card to the mobo using an IDE-to-CF adapter.
I don't know if this is still an issue, but flash memory only supports so many write operations, so a solution is to mount eg. /tmp and /var in RAM and only write /var from RAM to the card every so often, so as to reduce the number of write operations.
I was wondering if there are good, compact, actively-developped Linux distros that are built from the start to be used with a CF card instead of an HD.
Thank you.
1If you have plenty of RAM you might also want to turn off swap as well – Col – 2009-09-23T09:27:39.933
You could also just buy a small IDE or SATA SSD drive that you know has modern wear-leveling technology built-in and toss the IDE-to-CF adapter. If you use an SSD with good wear-leveling, you shouldn't care much about typical OS disk writes. – Chris W. Rea – 2009-09-24T00:56:39.493
Thanks for the feedback. I'll just get an SSD then and use some compact Linux distro. – OverTheRainbow – 2009-09-24T10:33:51.917