On Friday 17 April 2015 02:33:59 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:50:13 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > On Thursday 16 April 2015 16:01:31 David Christensen wrote: > > > Do you know if the laptop or the desktop machine can use a USB > > > flash drive as the system drive? My 945 chipset and newer > > > machines can do this. It is one of the best cheap Linux tricks > > > I've ever discovered. > > > > With limited life of the flash, linux filesystems are hell on flash. > > Not any longer :) There are now Linux filesystems specifically for > flash memory - F2FS, for instance. ext4 isn't as bad on flash, either, > with the right mount options, and btrfs (if you dare use it) has > optimizations for it. I think wikipedia has more on those - there are > others. > > It's a good option for installations, or a system drive that you can > boot in an emergency. They are also cheap enough that you can use them > as a system drive on a box altogether, and just replace it before/when > it goes bad. > > Petter
Thats good to read Petter, thanks. I got burned a bit early on, running dd-wrt on an x86 boxen from nothing but flash, It worked great, till the flashes died, about 3 of the std sized 512 meggers in a month. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201504170554.08408.ghesk...@wdtv.com
