On 25/01/2008, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > The eeepc drive has a FTL, so these drives don't appear as flash drives to the OS, so jffs, yaffs, logfs and the like aren't applicable to the eeepc, as I understand it. > -- > John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@xxxxxxxxxx> > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
