On 9/27/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doesn't using the flash drive as a swap disk shorten its life span? Definitely. How much is debatable considering flash drives typically have wear leveling and for this application, it is not going to be providing swap for an extensive period of time. Also, wearing out an unused flash drive that you don't care much about is not the worst thing in the world. Nokia has the option to set up a swap file on the external flash media with their Internet Tablets and OLPC have just a flash drive for everything. So I am not sure if they have their algorithms tweaked to take it easy on the flash memory or if this is more a theoretical problem than a practical one. A good thing to point out though ... I was intending to but forgot. Thanks. /Mike
