CentOS - Jul 2011 - Installing OS on Flash Drive on Server

Hi All,
On my gateway server I'm Installing CentOS on a flashdrive. is that a bad
idea? the server keep hang, I can ping the server from the LAN and from the
internet, the internet connection from LAN to internet is OK but another
service is down, ssh, VPN (PPTPD) and another service. Even the console is
unresponsive so I have to reset the server. Last time when I still can do
SSH to server the / drive is mounted read only, when I try to remount rw it
said error write protected but the flash drive itself have no write
protection. I'm wondering is using Flashdrive on server OS is a bad idea?
anyone have similar experience? thank you.
regards,








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On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Muhammad Panji wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: Muhammad Panji <sumodirjo at gmail.com>
> Subject: [CentOS] Installing OS on Flash Drive on Server
> 
> Hi All,
> On my gateway server I'm Installing CentOS on a flashdrive. is that a
bad
> idea? the server keep hang, I can ping the server from the LAN and from the
> internet, the internet connection from LAN to internet is OK but another
> service is down, ssh, VPN (PPTPD) and another service. Even the console is
> unresponsive so I have to reset the server. Last time when I still can do
> SSH to server the / drive is mounted read only, when I try to remount rw it
> said error write protected but the flash drive itself have no write
> protection. I'm wondering is using Flashdrive on server OS is a bad
idea?
> anyone have similar experience? thank you.
> regards,
Hi Muhammad. You might like to check the mailing-list 
archives for June, as there was quite a long discusiion on 
using Flash USB drives an SSD's for Centos installations.

I think the general conclusions were that Flass drives are 
not really designed for this, and will wear out quickly, and 
the SDD's can fail without any warning whatsoever - and 
bang does your OS and/or your data.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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