[plug] swap query

[Paul Arch]

Hi,

 I think usb thumb drives use NAND technology same as compact flash, and
these have a limited amount of write cycles. They employ wear levelling, but
for a swap this will kill it pretty quickly :)

cheers



----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Kemner" <zombie at penguincare.com.au>
To: "plug" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] swap query


> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, quoth Craig Dyke:
>
> > I have an old laptop with only a couple of gig of space and was
wondering
> > if plugging a 500MB / 1GB thumb drive into usb port would be able to
> > be used effectively as swap?
>
> It'd be fairly slow I think, plus if you accidentally remove the drive
> without running "swapoff" first you will crash your kernel.
>
> I'd be more inclined to allocate a portion of the HDD as swap and then use
> the thumb drive as storage space (eg /home/)
>
>  - Matt
>
>