On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:39 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote: > > - Flash drive. Want to minimize writes. One attempt (eeedora) uses the > ext2 filesystem rather than ext3. Does that help? Are there things to > take from stateless projects for minimizing writes to /var? > jffs2 is what we use on the OLPC, there is another FS in the works that is a lot better for large flash though. I forget the name. On modern flash you don't have to worry about rewrites as much though since the hardware randomizes writes. What kills the disk on older flash drives is writing to the journal in Ext3 and writing to the FAT on Fat disks. Both of those are fixed locations which stress out a small portion of the disk. Each flash device has only so many writes per bit before that bit dies. By distributing it over the whole disk it takes a lot longer to destroy. I would check the specs on the flash drive that came with the Eee. Another thing you might want to do is not have a swap partition. Apps run fine without swap, you just might run into OOM more frequently. -- John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
