Re: usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?
On Thursday 19 August 2004 17:40, Steven Jones wrote:
> just a thought....
>
> I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type
> scenario....swap to flash first off then connventional disk later...
>
> Or possibly use it as a logging "disk" for /var/log as mine are getting
> hammered....
nah, they're too slow and it's best to use them for what they were designed
for - portability. You want to be able to remove them at will, right?
Course they might be good for booting a live linux filesystem as a rescue
gadget or something, or perhaps slapping your home dir on it and taking it to
another machine or somthing ...
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