Timeline for Run entire OS from flash drive
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| Jul 31, 2012 at 14:36 | comment | added | J. M. Becker | I do wish a flash optimized distro came ready to use, such features as: default scheduler set as Noop, default mount options noatime, all tmp/cache directories are TMPFS mounts.... but as far as I know, nothing pre-made currently exists. | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 14:32 | comment | added | J. M. Becker | Unfortunately once you throw that layer of abstraction, the firmware, you lose some degree of control. For example, lets say the real data is stored in a logFS type filesystem. The firmware presents that data as a regular `ol block device. even if you wrote the same block, again and again, your actually not writing the same spot because of the underlying filesystem. In our example, the updates always happen sequentially. The flash controller provides the seamless translation. OS uses it's regular filesystems, the real data resides in a flash optimized filesystem. | |
| Jul 30, 2012 at 16:24 | vote | accept | galets | ||
| Jul 30, 2012 at 16:24 | comment | added | galets | That helps. I would still like to see if there is an operating system support for putting OS to a flash drive AND having longevity features enabled (such as: not write to the same sector over and over) | |
| Jul 30, 2012 at 15:10 | history | answered | J. M. Becker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |