Re: [Sheflug] Choice of Laptop

[Adam Funk <A.Funk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 14 January 2008, John Southern wrote:

> > Adam
> > > I was under the impression that flash-type drives (like camera
> > > cards and USB keys) weren't suitable as a substitute for hard
> > > drives because of the limited read-and-write life.  Is that no
> > > longer the case, or is this drive something different?
...
> Flash memory does have a theoretical limited Read/Write that would
> cause problems with some file systems such as swap which can be
> overwritten many, many times (some are now quoted up to one million
> writes, but most still mention 10K+). To combat this we use other
> filesystems more suited to handling long wear levelling. Since 2.4.10
> we have had support for JFFS2.

Aha.  I think what I'd heard might have been referring to swap rather than 
filesystems in general.

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