On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 11/23/2012 02:56 PM, JD wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Fedora 17? The page I reference seems to have F17 working somewhat >>>>> better than you report. >>>> >>>> With a keyboard permanently attached ... >>>> >>>>> I might as well stay with Android. I actually have to start working >>>>> with it for my day job. I work for Verizon Enterprise Systems and my >>>>> research is leading me to working on some product development. Sigh. I >>>>> LIKE research; kind of like Medcalf back at Xerox.... >>>> >>>> One of the problems with trying to drop Linux onto most tablets is the >>>> complete lack of a real disk subsystem, just slow SD card interfaces. >>>> That really hurts although it can still be usable. >>> >>> >>> Bad performance could be the result of 'less than optimal' SD cards. >>> Even slow-rated cards (Class 4) sometimes outperform fast (Class 10) >>> cards >>> depending on what you do with them. Checkout the following analysis: >>> >>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12330898 >> >> I agree as far as SD card performance grade. >> When you switch to the Extreme level of performance (45MB/s read/write), >> you will see almost hard drive level of performance. Of course, you must >> be aware of what happens to SD card when written to very often. >> So I would suggest that you mount you /tmp and /var/tmp and your home dir >> on some other drive. > > I mounted all of /var on the SDD to include logs. But is there a way to > mount /tmp and /var to the same partition? That is a major issue: how to > figure out how large to make separate partitiions when there is so little > space to work with! > > As for /home, there is very little writing to /home. It is better to manage > all frequent data on a USB drive. > > I would think that you would have to do it manually. There is a way to overlay any directory with a directory on some other permanent storage device. This is called the overlay feature. I know how to do this for Knoppix live. Not sure how to do it for fedora live because I have not and do not use it. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org