On Sunday 19 February 2006 22:56, Kelsey Hartigan Go wrote: > Did somebody just tell me that Flash Memory has a limit on the number of > write cycles?
The key is to reduce the amount of write operations. Not a problem for mostly static data like executable binaries, libraries, and many configuration files since you rarely modify those. If you could isolate all operations that involves writing to files to a single directory tree, then you could just put them in RAM drive. And if you need the data to be persistent, just the save the snapshot of the RAM drive to a certain part of your flash drive. A directory or if the flash drive supports multiple partitions, on a separate partition. Let's say save the data only before rebooting or shutting down the system, or whenever the user wants to. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop viruses, trojan horses, and spyware. Stop using Internet Explorer! http://www.alternativebrowseralliance.com/browsers.html _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
