From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbJnR-0002gY-B5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:10:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14CBAE053D; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:10:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BEAE053D for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B1566B43 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:10:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.212 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.212 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.387, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id q6pSEp4zJAPg for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4141669A2 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:10:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JbJnA-0005JM-Kb for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:10:36 +0000 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:10:36 +0000 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:10:36 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:10:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1205578235.5566.28.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> <47DC259C.50809@gmail.com> <1A85EC39-CDFF-47D8-8D13-A22471BF7EAA@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <47DC64F5.2000402@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080215 SeaMonkey/1.1.8) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 0efb9e4a-70b4-4366-8ea4-def76481bf67 X-Archives-Hash: 0eaa80df8c7d703512f60ab6ba0612ab dexters84 gmail.com> writes: > > I believe the size of the writes can be relevant as well. > > Stroller. > That was exactly my point. Systems based on cf card as hard drive are > usually small - one function focused devices, hence there is no need for > swap partition. To extend lifetime of cf card you have to minimize all > possible read/writes to card. OK, I agree. minimize the size of the system and minimize writes to extend the life of the CF. Wear leveling is *probably* built into the IDE to CF converter carrier board? So no need to work about which File System to use or tuning the file system (EXT2). Is that it? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list