D. Jay Newman wrote:
>>D. Jay Newman wrote:

Your software seems to have a problem with attributes.

>>
>>>>William Chops Westfield wrote:
>>
>>Uhm, I wrote this:

Just pointing out the mistake. :-)
> 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.  :)

I may give the flash cards a try as I have a PC104 set here. That is
when I get time. ;-) And yes I'd do the same having a hard drive for
testing and a flash card for the final runs.

Thanks for the info on the flash.

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