swap partition in Flash drives
First, sorry I can not answer continuing the thread of the conversation
because these last days has been problems on the Internet at International
level and I dont have received all the messages about this theme.
Referring to what we are speaking,
I believe that what we treat is to install an Operating System for the people
that travels, and works in different computers, we should do them know that
an OS does not start if has not a minimum of hardware. and the RAM memory is
critical for the system. And the swap space supplies a replacement with
little RAM memory. The user could decide about if the computers where he
works needs swapping.
Likewise I believe that we should dissuade the installation of complete System
persistence, because each change in the file system is written to disk, And
in FLASH that is slow and also can burn the life of the memory.
Jordi Pujol
A Dimecres, 11 de Juliol de 2007 15:43, Jordi Pujol va escriure:
> Hello,
>
> I have written the howto for Custom Installing a Debian Live in any drive,
>
> Thanks to Ben Armstrong for doing some style and consistence corrections in
> that howto, I acknowledge myself some lack of fluency writting and
> explaining in the English language,
>
> 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.
>
> The swap memory is to prevent this case, and to give the user a possibility
> to work in all situations,
>
> in schools or some cyber-cafe ?(correct word for me) is common to save
> installing old or less powerful equipment, a Pentium 200 and 128MB of RAM,
> and the Live Operating Systems should work there.
>
> And also I have read some articles giving more than thousand years of live
> for an USB pendrive been written several times a day.
>
> What do you think ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jordi Pujol
>
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