Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>  wrote:
 > A question on the flash drive: do you have its filesystems mounted
 > read-only, or at least noatime? ISTR limits on the number of write
 > cycles for CF cards that would use them up after a few hours of
 > typical UNIX hard drive use.


I haven't bothered with any such thing.  The flash I've been 
encountering has a rewrite liftetime of a million cycles or something
on a per-bit basis... Since I have no swap configured and don't run
syslogd, I'm not too concerned with writes...