On Jan 22, 2008 3:49 PM, Dewhirst, Rob <<a href="mailto:dewey@ku.edu">dewey@ku.edu</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My frontend has been running off a 2GB CF for quite some time without<br>problems. Booting is slower, but performance otherwise doesn't seem<br>affected.<br></blockquote></div><br>The most important thing here is that the CF card has wear leveling built in or you use a file system that supports that. If you get a large enough CF drive and have wear leveling it should take quite some time to wear it out considering how slow the CF writes data and that each cell can take 100,000 (or more) writes before failure.
<br><br>John<br>