[openbeos] Re: compact flash
- From: "Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:37:43 GMT
"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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