[ale] SWAP over NFS

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Wed Apr 16 23:24:45 EDT 2008


JK wrote:
> laytonjb at charter.net wrote:
> 
> Isn't there a rather low physical limit on the total possible number of 
> read/write cycles
> for a particular flash chip?  It seems like swapping on flash would hit 
> that limit pretty fast.

I think the limit runs from 100,000 to 1,000,000 depending on the card. 
Since the cards do wear-leveling, one form of insurance should be to get 
a larger card than you need. A 2GB 266x (40 MB/s) CompactFlash card 
costs less than $30.

-Brian


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