Re: [SLUG] Linux on a flash drive

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Oct 15 2006 - 15:27:22 EDT


On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, rmorgan@heavysystems.com wrote:

> Eben King wrote ..
>> So, flash drives have a limited number of writes before they die, so what
>> can I do? What writes they do have are very slow.
>
> Why don't you set up ramdisks for the temp filesystems you need to write to?

I think tmpfs does a similar thing. Dunno which is better yet. I'm also
wondering about things like /var/run and /var/lock, that aren't needed over
reboot. Maybe those should be on a RAMdisk too. 1GB RAM ought to be
enough...

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