[Gllug] Flash-only laptop

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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, and make sure you get a non-crap card that has
automatic wear levelling. (Downside: it might be bloody hard to work out
if it *has* or not :/ )

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