Russell Coker wrote:
For overkill, you can set up a read-only root fs with live-build, live-boot and live-config.
My client had that, it got annoying and didn't seem to provide any benefit. I'll go for a single large filesystem. Ext4 seems reliable enough.
Fair enough. I have a few 4GB USB key deployments (on headless boxes) with stock Debian installed on them, and it wasn't a very nice experience. Mainly just that I/O is aggravatingly slow, especially for dpkg. I don't know if SD (and a more modern FTL) would help in that respect. The other problem I had was that stock installs will want to fsck after an outage, and even with a journal that's suckily slow. (Especially when you're talking over the phone to a non-technical user who is reading boot output off a 19" monitor balanced in their lap or whatever. You know -- the usual.) I guess I'd be happy to do a stock install onto something like that again, but only if it was locked in a cabinet with a UPS.