>Regarding your Linux: On a modern computer, you probably want >to use a RAM filesystem for temporary files. But you say you >need a lot of swap, so this is probably no option for you. I >can predict that if your swap is on CF, your Linux will be at >least as slow as it was with a harddisk ;-)
My primary goal is to future-proof the machine (as I anticipate CF to be available further into the future than IDE magnetic storage), a secondary goal that is fulfilled by the small size of CF cards is to fit multiple drives into the machine (there's only one free drive bay, but three free IDE connectors). I figure on a layout like this: Primary master: 512 MiB DOS partition, Win 95 above 512 MiB Primary slave: possible 512 MiB DOS partition, Linux home and root above 512 MiB, plus anything Unixy I feel like experimenting with. Secondary master: 512 MiB FAT partition for Win 3/9x page files, Linux swap above 512 MiB. Secondary slave: CD-ROM The 512 MiB partitions at the beginning of each disk are due to limitations in the machine's BIOS, which Linux and Win95 don't seem to be affected by (except that when the BIOS first sees a disk, all partitions must reside within the first 512 MiB, or the BIOS will refuse to use the disk. If the partition table is changed later, everything works fine as long as DOS isn't in a partition that hours beyond 512 MiB). I figure I'll have a dedicated drive for swap in order to: a) Not have swap competing with file I/O for reads/writes to the same disk. b) Minimize filesystem damage if the swap device busts its write lifetime. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
