[Nottingham] Gentoo fun on an old VIA Epia C3

[Peter Woods]

Martin wrote:
>
> Sooo.... Why use ext2 and noatime for my example? The three drives used, 
> hda, sda and sdb are all flash SSDs and the hope is that ext2 and 
> noatime will help to minimise the write counts on those devices to 
> reduce "wear". Flash devices have a very limited number of writes 
> compared to HDDs.
>   
Sorry, I traded my two sticks of 512 / PC133 for a DDR stick at the 
compooter shop.
(My m/b died and the guy knows the value of old stuff.)

My "solid state" machine goes better since I moved /tmp into RAM:
here's a link:
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/04/four-tweaks-for-using-linux-with-solid-state-drives/
(Need the Firefox fix too.)

HTH

Pete Woods