netbook vs tablet

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 11/23/2012 02:56 PM, JD wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>>>> Fedora 17?  The page I reference seems to have F17 working somewhat
>>>> better than you report.
>>> With a keyboard permanently attached ...
>>>
>>>> I might as well stay with Android.  I actually have to start working
>>>> with it for my day job.  I work for Verizon Enterprise Systems and my
>>>> research is leading me to working on some product development. Sigh.  I
>>>> LIKE research; kind of like Medcalf back at Xerox....
>>> One of the problems with trying to drop Linux onto most tablets is the
>>> complete lack of a real disk subsystem, just slow SD card interfaces.
>>> That really hurts although it can still be usable.
>>
>> Bad performance could be the result of 'less than optimal' SD cards.
>> Even slow-rated cards (Class 4) sometimes outperform fast (Class 10) cards
>> depending on what you do with them.  Checkout the following analysis:
>>
>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12330898
> I agree as far as SD card performance grade.
> When you switch to the Extreme level of performance (45MB/s read/write),
> you will see almost hard drive level of performance. Of course, you must
> be aware of what happens to SD card when written to very often.
> So I would suggest that you mount you /tmp and /var/tmp and your home dir
> on some other drive.
I mounted all of /var on the SDD to include logs. But is there a way to 
mount /tmp and /var to the same partition?  That is a major issue:  how 
to figure out how large to make separate partitiions when there is so 
little space to work with!

As for /home, there is very little writing to /home.  It is better to 
manage all frequent data on a USB drive.