[Novalug] Booting from Flash Drives (long term data)

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

You could also simply use the existing grub to chain to your flash or 
copy the stanza and boot it directly.

I concur with the Doctor's thoughts. As for failing, plug two in and do 
regular backups.

And More Memory is Always Better!

JIM

On 6/29/2010 4:15 PM, Jay Hart wrote:
> Team,
>
> I'm considering installing FreeNAS on a flash drive and booting from that
> device.  I see this being a long term solution for me due to not wanting to
> install a third drive in a PC just for use as a boot drive.
>
> If you have been using a flash drive as a boot disk/drive for boxes (in any
> situation), where the box runs 24/7, please share your results with the list.
>
> I'm interested in:
>
> 1. How often reboots occur?
> 2. Have you had flash drives fail?
> 3. Would a SSD work better for me in this case?
> 4. Can I get an SSD in USB connector format?
> 5. Is it possible to have the Swap partition live on the flash drive?  Is this
> recommended?
> 6. etc, etc,.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Jay
>
> _______________________________________________
> Novalug mailing list
> Novalug at calypso.tux.org
> http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>
>
>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> Version: 9.0.830 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2970 - Release Date: 06/29/10 02:35:00
>
>    

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/novalug/attachments/20100630/ae57126b/attachment.html