Hi! On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> wrote:
HG wrote:
What should I know about installing the system partitions on a CF card? Should I put swap there also? If not, why not? Will the CF card wear down? Should I invest in faster CF cards? The system will probably have 2Gb memory.
Why not invest in more memory and avoid swap altogether?
Can't fit more. I'm thinking about going with Atom 330 (dual core) which is available only on one motherboard and it only supports 2Gb. However, I want to use real distro and not some special NAS distro.
Also, does OpenSUSE 11.1 spin down the 1.5Tb data hard drives when they are not in use? Or can it be easily configured to do so?
It's easily configured with hdparm. I've got a backup-system with 2x1Tb in RAID1 which is only spun up for a maybe four hours every morning between 2 and 6. Experiment a bit with your hardware - my array is showing some instability when spinning up the drives, and I think I'll have to return/replace one or both.
So, it is possible to do for RAID-arrays also? Didn't know that. My 9.2 didn't do that when I tried to enable it from YaST AFAIK. What kind of instability are you experiencing? Is it connected to RAID or other HW? I'm thinking about using the new Seagate 1.5Tb disks - although just a few days ago, I found out that they are not too good choices for RAID :-( So, therefore I'm thinking about rsyncing instead of RAID - that would create a one day backup at the same time :-) -- HG. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org