F9 for Eeepc

Colin Walters walters at redhat.com
Fri Jan 25 22:47:55 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:39 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> - Flash drive.  Want to minimize writes.  One attempt (eeedora) uses the 
> ext2 filesystem rather than ext3.  Does that help?  Are there things to 
> take from stateless projects for minimizing writes to /var?

One approach is to say that actually the entire filesystem is read-only,
kind of like a live OS except for /home, which is on the required SD
card.  There is certainly work on this that's been done in the context
of the Stateless project in the past.

The only time it needs to be made un-readonly is for software updates.
Downside of this approach is that you can't use the SD card for reading
photos from your camera.






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