Re: BGP4 using FreeBSD

From: Kurt Jaeger (lists_at_complx.LF.net)
Date: 01/25/04

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    Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:28:13 +0100
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    Hi!

    > >Disks were never the relevant topic. Basically, those systems
    > >just worked. Yes, they need a little hand-holding, but not because
    > >of the disks.

    > Well that may be, but why risk having a hard drive go out? Flash memory
    > most definatley outlasts traditional hard drives.

    See the discussioon nanog about this, a few days ago.

    http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/

    The problem with flash is that has its part of wear and tear as well.
    It's not easy to do a real read-only setup. If you don't, some
    part of the flash do will wear out. Flash mem do has a finite number
    of possible writes. 

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