On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:32:29PM +0100, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> fisch wrote:
> > hi,
> > on every change of rules m0n0wall is writing to floppy. That's no problem
> > but I don't trust the lifetime of a floppy. Is it possible to copy the
> > config.xml after boot to ramdisk and use it there? Saving the config.xml
> > back to floppy can be done with the exec.php.
> > by fisch
> 
> I had the same thoughts too, but: What if there is a power failure? All your 
> changes are lost.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas

I have all my equipment on UPS.  A soekris, or even an old PC, should be
able to run from a small UPS for long enough to commit the changes, and
probably much longer.  small UPSes are fairly cheap these days.

jim