Re: Installing linux on an IDE flash drive. Swap partition question

Jon E. Weingarten wrote:
David Brown wrote:

Been using a base installation of Debian on a 2GB IDE flash drive

using (a swap file on a jffs2 or yaffs disk will get wear levelling over
the whole disk, for example, while swap on a partition will have much
less levelling).

It absolutely doesn't make sense to use a IDE flashdrive or a CF-flashdrive
with a jffs2 filesystem.
The internal electronics of such devices already *do* use the whole flash
memory equally. You don't win anything when using another mechanism
for 'equalized' writings on top of that. Jffs is intended for direct use, such as a microcontroller with direct
attached flashram where the microcontroller is responible for the complete
access.


Sorry - I didn't notice that he was using a drive with wear levelling. In that case, a swap partition (if you decide to use swap at all) will be levelled just as well as a swap file would be.

For the rest, I totally agree: even with 512 megs you don't really need
swap-space any more, at least if you are running the same software and
tasks again and again.


Cheers
.

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