On Jan 28, 2008 7:20 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > 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. > > The drive appears as a standard IDE drive. dmesg reports the drive as a > "SILICONMOTION SM223AC". Google doesn't seem to turn up much other > than users' reports on their eeePC :-). > For other eeepc users I just wanted to mention that I hacked on devilspie to include matching on the geometry attributes of a window. Long story short you can use it now to say if a window is taller than 480 pixels you can either set it to resize smaller or maximize vertically. This still doesn't work for dialog's yet, I am looking at gtk and a few other places that I might hack around fixes to make them fit on the small resolution better. Jon -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
