On Thursday, July 21, 2011 05:26:47 PM Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to build a redundant duo of firewalls/routers/gateways and I'm > thinking about not putting any disks in them and instead using a usb-stick > raid-1 as storage. > Has anyone any experience with this? Since the machines will be running > pretty much only iptables, conntrackd and keepalived there is not going to > be a lot of disk activity going on and the plan is to do all the logging on > a remote machine which should reduce the write activity on the sticks to > almost zero during normal operation. > > I've already created a fairly minimal kickstart for such an installation > but I'm wondering if there are any opinions out there on whether this is a > feasible approach or if there are any gotchas I'm not aware of. I/we have done this on a few systems with vanilla CentOS and no problems. Do note however that not all usb-sticks are the same (performance can vary _a lot_). /Peter
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