[vdr] Re: Discless vdr

["Ulrich Petri" <ulope@gmx.de>]

Oliver Friedrich wrote:
> Would it be a solution for you to replace the hard drive with 
> a compact
> flash card? So you remove the noisy hard drive but have a regular boot
> device, even if you move your vdr box to friends to show them your
> little baby or if your network is not available for some reason ...
> 
> That is the way i choose to build my dvb box with a Epia 5000.
> 
> You need than a image for a ramdrive, because you can't use 
> the CF card
> as a normal disk, because it has limited write cycles ...

yes you can but you have to boot the kernel using the "noatimes" options
so it won't write the access times onto the CF...

Ciao Ulrich



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