On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:43:40 +0200 Jordi Pujol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I disagree with you technically, Ben, when you said that a swap partition > is not necessary on an USB flash drive, > > If the computer has enough memory, the swap partition will not be used, > > But if the computer has 128MB of RAM or less, the OS will not start and the > user has no solution to solve this failure.
Unfortunate, but I don't think recommending the user take action that would bring about the rapid death of their USB drive is an acceptable alternative. > And also I have read some articles giving more than thousand years of live > for > an USB pendrive been written several times a day. "Several times a day" is not at all accurate when you're talking about a low memory system using swap. Don't take my word for it. Google: "flash drive" swap Tell me what you find. Ben -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] _______________________________________________ Debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
