Re: usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:40:50AM +1200, Steven Jones wrote:
> just a thought....
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> I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type scenario....swap to flash first off then connventional disk later...
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> Or possibly use it as a logging "disk" for /var/log as mine are getting hammered....
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> ?
>
Hi,
the main issue is speed. The io read and write speed of these type of
media is very,very slow. The only thing I know of that uses this is in
embedded development where the image is read into memory and little is
written.
- -Kev
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