[Gllug] Flash-only laptop

[Nix]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005, nix at esperi.org.uk moaned:
> On Tue, 07 Jun 2005, Rich Walker suggested tentatively:
>> Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 14:00 +0100, Rich Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> You'd need:
>>>> * no swap partition
>>>
>>> For speed reasons only I assume
>> 
>> No - wear cycles. Flash - 10k-100k cycles writes, which is not long for
>> the allocation map alone.
> 
> That's why you use JFFS

But not for swap.

Sheesh. You'd think I could learn to *read* one of these days...

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