I got a second Pogoplug (P21) and will be setting it up as a web server (the first one is doing samba and DLNA). I used an old 2.5" HDD for the first one but I'm wondering if I could use a USB flash drive for the second one. Obviously, with all the daemons running and writing to the drive, I'm wondering how long a flash drive that is not optimized for this purpose (like an SSD) will last? Which also brings the subject of backing up the rootfs - what's a good way of doing that? Can one simply mount the drive to a Linux machine and copy it all? Does it matter how (e.g., file-by-file or rolling up a tarball)? If it's that simple, could one use instead some Windows utilities for reading ext3 (and if yes - which)?
By the way, I happen to have an old PC, nothing too crazy in terms of hardware, but I have already tried several Linuses (Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, Damn Small Linux) and none have worked. Only Fedora installed but as soon as I ran the updater, it crashed irrecoverably. Windows runs fine on that PC. It has an ASUS A7V8X motherboard with a Promise RAID, and Fedora had all the drivers (it could see the primary IDE - Windows, secondary IDE - ext4, and SATA RAID 1+0 disks), except it complained it couldn't load the X environment (the videocard is a Radeon AIW 7200). I think I'll try Arch next.
Kamen