On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:42:49 -0500
"John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp(a)redhat.com> 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
Logfs. There's also UBIFS in the works.
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
Erm.. that's a function of a controller of some kind. Not the flash
chip itself.
josh