On Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 03:04PM -0500, Eben King wrote:
> 2. I know you should minimize writing to Flash cards, maybe by transcribing
> changes at shutdown. How do LiveCD and thumb-drive-Linux designers
> designers cope with a read-only filesystem?
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Don't worry about this. Any somewhat recent flash drive has more write
cycles than you could produce in a few years of continuous writing.
At most, mount with noatime.
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Don't dwell on the negative, just the positivity"
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