On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Conrad Meyer <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Any reason for not having swap? Or if you don't want to use the disk all the > time, perhaps create a swap file before doing updates with yum? Lots. We are running jffs2 on bare NAND. A NAND partition dedicated to a conventional swap would wear out badly. And jffs2 is a compressed fs (no per-file flag to disable compression) with very strange performance patterns -- a swapfile in there is bad news. > But as you've > said before, most users won't be using yum anyways (and even fewer users will > actually be getting updates at all). Power users can easily add swap. Well, we are using a homegrown update mechanism. It has some advantages over yum -- for starters, it works on our hw :-) . Let's say that the fact that yum+rpm do _not_ work on our hardware for large upgrades - due to memory issues - closes many avenues. cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
