Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Who is working on what?

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >> We have most of the stuff in the ramdisk because we (Friedrich and I) 
> >> don't think CD drives are reliable enough for constant access. 
> > 
> > To be precise you convinced my a long time ago that CD drives are not
> > reliable and that it's better to have all in the ramdisk. I personally
> > don't have a problem with that as all devil boxes I installed lately
> > got at least 512M of RAM anyways. I guess in the long run we'll be
> > unsing flash disk or usb flash drives to reduce the amount of moving
> > parts in our firewalls and/or servers.
>
> That's my goal, too. To only problem is that the majority of our users 
> (private) uses old hardware (like me), which is not very so reliable.

Yes, a LOT of users I know run their firewalls on old Pentium boxes.
I've seen those old machines sold as cheap as $5.

Not to mention an old 100Mhz Pentium box can firewall a full T1 line
without breaking a sweat.

> That's the reason why the first step should be to move the 
> not-so-often-used binaries to the CD.

I'd move the command-line binaries to the CD.  (stuff you have to be
logged into the firewall to run)  That way the user can see it right
away if something has a problem.

> I think we should release 1.0 before we think about moving most of the 
> stuff onto the storage media.

Yes.

 - BS