On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> 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.
Well, at the least, I'll do that and have /tmp and other temp directories on
tmpfs. Other fses will live on NFS shares over a wireless link. slow... I
mean, I might be able to use a router in such a way that from it to the
computer is wired, but I don't want to drape a network cable across my
floor, so there's going to be wireless _somewhere_.
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