> D. Jay Newman wrote:
> >>William Chops Westfield wrote:
>
> Uhm, I wrote this:

Sorry.

> David & D. Jay, I wonder how long a compact flash card would last
> in a PC with Windows or Linux. You'd have to limit swaps & be careful
> of writes. I guess you could take advantage of a RAM fs. It would
> be difficult to run something like MisterHouse to accomplish this.
> I'm not saying possible.

There seems to be a lot of work in running Linux from embedded systems.

I believe there is a special flash filesystem to increase the longevity
of the flash.

I would use two flash cards: 1 for the read-only parts of the system,
and one for the read/write parts. To my mind that would simplify things
greatly.

Of course, I would probably would only optimize this *after* I got a
system working.  :)
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