FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: compact flash

["Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> "Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" 
> <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  ...
> > What I'd like to be able to do is to just boot off
> > the CF  (for low boot -times),
> 
> Aren't most real disks faster than CF?
> (except in seek time)
> 
Isn't seeking what's usually limiting you when booting?

>
> > but then hand over everything to a regular IDE disk;
> > swap, home, and other things that regularly change.
> > Having frequently-changing data on a CF will kill it 
> > pretty fast with its limited write cycles.
> 
> There's always ramdisk, NFS, etc.
>
Yeah, but not when you boot. :) Sure, if you had some kind of static 
RAM that kept its contents through reboot, but seeing that's not 
available... :)

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Mikael Jansson
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