From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 15iy5X-0006yi-00 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:05:27 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <3BA5F4EC.2060909@tid.es> References: <3BA5F4EC.2060909@tid.es> To: Jose =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rodr=EDguez?= Argente Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Flash writings limit? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:11:26 +0100 Message-ID: <10490.1000732286@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: jradc@tid.es said: > Is it harmful to the flash memory if the whole filesystem tree in > linux is intalled on flash (including /tmp /var and other directories > with a high rate of writing operations) ? I have Strata Flash with > JFFS2 installed. It depends how much you actually write to those directories, but yes - it's advisable to put them elsewhere. The iPAQ uses ramfs for /tmp and some of the subdirectories of /var - that seems like a sensible plan. -- dwmw2