[Gllug] Flash-only laptop

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> > You'd need:
> > * no swap partition
> 
> For speed reasons only I assume

See below

> > * /tmp, /var/tmp/ and probably a few others on ramdisks.
> 
> Why? CF is cheaper than memory. When the CF chip wears out throw it
> away :)

Yes but you'll be throwing it out mighty often if you put swap, /tmp and 
other regularly accessed bits of the filesystem on flash.

Flash has a finite number of write cycles.  When you're writing photos 
to a CF card from a camera, you're talking years and years.  If you use 
it for stuff like swap and /tmp, you'd wear it out very very quickly.

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
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