On 20/10/2019 02:01, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>> On 18/10/2019 19:00, NY wrote:
>>> In fact the only time I ever had the system drive go bad, preventing the
>>> Pi from booting, was after a tidy "reboot" which should have shut things
>>> down gracefully.
>>
>> My advice if its mission critical, is to have as vanilla and replaceable
>> a boot device,  as possible. Data disks that seldom get written to are
>> far far less likely to suffer power related irrevocable failures.
>>
>> In my own pi the SD card contains no moving data of any importance. Only
>> logs IIRC.
>>
>> Everything else is network mounted. And the network server is a linux
>> PCX86 with NO AUTOBOOT ON POWER!!!
>>
>> Or you could use a SATA USB drive.
>
> Running the system entirely from RAM is another solution. Tiny Core
> Linux does this, and has a Raspberry Pi build. I'm not sure if
> anyone's got it working with the Pi4 yet though.
>
You still need to boot it off SD

I guess you could make /var/log a ram disk :-)

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