I run SL5 on 6 machines, and am considering building a low power browsing/email machine running SL5. It will probably use an Atom mini-ITX board and a 30GB solid state drive - no moving parts, and using less than 40 watts. I will do the usual /tmp in ramdisk and "noatime" in /etc/fstab, among other flash-friendly tweaks.
Although the boot partition will be ext2/3 , I am considering making the main partition with the JFFS file system - the Journalling Flash File System. That is not built into the SL5 kernel ... it is a module instead. I'm wondering if the system will be able to find the JFFS module if /etc and /lib and /bin are stored as JFFS. Probably not. Does anyone know? I can compile my own kernel, of course, but I lose the advantage of automated updates. I can also build the main partition with ext2/3, and move the frequently varying stuff like /var and /home into separate JFFS partitions. I would rather use JFFS for as much as I can, though. Updates could be extremely slow if too much of the system is ext2/3 . Ideas? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
