Re: 1930/1940 initrd or kernel reiserfs and swap

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:15:58PM -0800, Nicholas Knight wrote:
> Bernard Parisse wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Is there any plan to have reiserfs and swap support in initrd
> >or should I corss-compile myself a kernel?
> >This would be great first to avoid fsck problems while booting
> >on SD card and to be able to run programs which require
> >more RAM than available on my 1930 using a swapfile on
> >my SD card.
>
> Might want to be careful with using journaling filesystems and
> swapfiles. Lots of little writes can severely impact flash life.

Can you give some quantitative details? For example, how much time
more do you make a write using journaling vs usual ext2?
I would not use swap on an usual basis, but from time to time
for native compilation of big files, how would it impact the life
of my SD card?

Thanks
Received on Wed Jan 04 2006 - 01:48:38 EST