-----Original Message----- From: Adam Myrow <myrowa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:23 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Subject: Re: Accessibility of netbooks On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Kerry Hoath wrote: > Also you should update the journal commit time to reduce wear on the flash > disk, this can be done with ext3 by adding > commit=30 to the mount options for the root fs, or by installing laptop-tools > which can take care of this. I thought it was a good idea to format a flash disk as EXT2 rather than EXT3, in order to minumize the wear. As I understand it, the technology has a very limited life span compared to modern hard drives. This is the big thing that is keeping solid-state drives from replacing hard drives. Once this is solved, I believe that all computers will eventually go to some sort of solid-state drive. You eliminate moving parts, and I would think, should be able to eventually get tremendous speed out of such devices. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
