On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:51 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: >> What about using a NAND partition as swap? Has this ever been done? >> Given that partition support is a recent development it seems unlikely. > > Swapping to the soldered-in NAND chips is a very bad idea. It will > tend to wear them out rapidly. Even if you use load-leveling software > (e.g. swapping to a file in a jfffs2 filesystem), the problem is that
While I generally agree with you, www.celinux.org/elc08_presentations/belyakov_elc2008_compressed_swap_final_doc.pdf does seem to talk about the mtd driver having special handling for swap. cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
