Hello,
Is it possible to install OMV on a CF card via an adapter IDE to CF ?
I read that it is not recommanded to install OMV on a USB stick for fiability reason.
It's the same thing on a CF card ?
Thank you. 
Possible, yes. Recommended, no. You are better to install on a small laptop hard drive or ssd.
Iro, my initial setup was on a CF card mounted in the IDE slot. Unfortunately, after a couple of months the system started hanging unexpectedly. As soon as I migrated the data from the CF to a standard IDE drive, the problems disappeared.
Strange enough, the CF card doesn't seem to have any defects - I ran a quick test on it. But there might be something wrong there that I didn't discover yet.
CFs are also Flash chips, just in a different package/interface than USB (and usually a lot faster, too). They suffer from the same risk of burn-out, unlike SSDs with TRIM function. And consider that OMV is frequently modifying files on the system disk - at least the log files which grow constantly, and the traffic/load/etc. graphs which get overwritten every 5 minutes. Yes, most likely the same memory cells will be used over and over and over again, until they burn out after some thousands of uses.
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