On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Good day,... > > Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as > posible. > > so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or > what ever the problem rises how ?
There are a number of ways to help you work with flash. But I'm not sure you'll end up with a system that is over-all more reliable than a journled file system. > > I'm not sure but most of todaies flash drive has a lifetime for 50K write > per bit (not sure since i read about 100K somewhere) so it is really bad > idea to use flash as swap or /var/log etc. > > the main question is how to set my favorite flavor (sid , sorry etch but i > don't love backports.. ) to work with as less as possible writes? > Ideas ? guides ? or what ever ... > > <To understend how to start> > http://wiki.flimzy.com/index.php/Install_Debian_on_USB > </To understend how to start> > > but who can i disable writes without damaging my system i guess linked tmp > with ramdisk is a start but i need more ideas . > > Thank you in advance. debian-live and such use usnionfs (or actually: aufs) to uinion-mount a ramdisk (for writing) on top of the DOK / CD (read-only). But if the power goes down suddenly, then bye-bye changes. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
