[Gllug] Flash-only laptop

[Rich Walker]

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.

>
>> * /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 :)

Well, at least mount it with -o noatime.

cheers, Rich.

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