Enterprise USB drives
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Is there such a thing?
I'm envisioning a USB drive with physical write-protection switch.
If so post some links.
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It's called an SD card and they are very common.
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So here is one such model. http://store.kanguru.com/products/kanguru-ss3
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@scottalanmiller said in Enterprise USB drives:
It's called an SD card and they are very common.
No sir, that is not USB, I didn't stutter in my post! Different interface entirely.
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@DustinB3403 said in Enterprise USB drives:
@scottalanmiller said in Enterprise USB drives:
It's called an SD card and they are very common.
No sir, that is not USB, I didn't stutter in my post! Different interface entirely.
Actually it's not. SD uses USB under the hood. It just moves the connection point. SD is the better design of USB.
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That's why SD cards and USB sticks show up the same as block devices... because they are the same.
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What do you want to use them for?
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@Reid-Cooper said in Enterprise USB drives:
What do you want to use them for?
expensive block boot devices to make monthly clones of my XS servers.
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Why do you want read only for that?
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@Reid-Cooper said in Enterprise USB drives:
Why do you want read only for that?
To ensure no logging goes back to the USB if it's is being actively used.
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@DustinB3403 said in Enterprise USB drives:
@Reid-Cooper said in Enterprise USB drives:
Why do you want read only for that?
To ensure no logging goes back to the USB if it's is being actively used.
Why not just mount the FS read only if you want to block it entirely?
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@Reid-Cooper said in Enterprise USB drives:
@DustinB3403 said in Enterprise USB drives:
@Reid-Cooper said in Enterprise USB drives:
Why do you want read only for that?
To ensure no logging goes back to the USB if it's is being actively used.
Why not just mount the FS read only if you want to block it entirely?
And how would you go about doing that, if you're using this device as a boot device for a hypervisor?
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This is to run the hypervisor, with logging redirected to my graylog server, I have centralized logging.
The goal is "nothing on cheap drives" so just looking for a long life USB that can be used to make a bootable clone of the running USB drives.
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I used an earlier model of that kangaroo drive when I was building out scripts to image computers. I used the write protect switch when I was learning how to script diskpart....
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@DustinB3403 said in Enterprise USB drives:
@Reid-Cooper said in Enterprise USB drives:
@DustinB3403 said in Enterprise USB drives:
@Reid-Cooper said in Enterprise USB drives:
Why do you want read only for that?
To ensure no logging goes back to the USB if it's is being actively used.
Why not just mount the FS read only if you want to block it entirely?
And how would you go about doing that, if you're using this device as a boot device for a hypervisor?
You still have to mount the volumes. Just use the read only options for your root volume, or put /var/log on a separate volume and mount it read only.
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You can get usb thumb drive like things with an sd card slot. the SD card just sticks a bit out. We have a couple here.
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@scottalanmiller said in Enterprise USB drives:
@DustinB3403 said in Enterprise USB drives:
@scottalanmiller said in Enterprise USB drives:
It's called an SD card and they are very common.
No sir, that is not USB, I didn't stutter in my post! Different interface entirely.
Actually it's not. SD uses USB under the hood. It just moves the connection point. SD is the better design of USB.
SD cards survive the writes much better than USB sticks?
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Will XS even boot from a read-only boot drive?
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@Dashrender said in Enterprise USB drives:
Will XS even boot from a read-only boot drive?
I think it would crash as it writes more than just logs to the boot device...
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@BRRABill said in Enterprise USB drives:
@Dashrender said in Enterprise USB drives:
Will XS even boot from a read-only boot drive?
I think it would crash as it writes more than just logs to the boot device...
Right, I would think the same. So while I understand @DustinB3403 desire to keep XS from writing logs to the USB/SD card, write protecting it probably won't work.
