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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:30:08 -0700
From:      Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        romero3000@romero3000.com
Subject:   Re: ramdisk??
Message-ID:  <20030610163007.GA69675@pun.isi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3EE5BF3B.705B2E36@mindspring.com>
References:  <23893.209.236.210.66.1055178986.squirrel@mail.romero3000.com> <20030609180452.GJ61917@pun.isi.edu> <3EE5BF3B.705B2E36@mindspring.com>

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:21:31AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Ted Faber wrote:
> > I mount a swap backed fs (which I what I suspect you want) with:
> 
> I don't think he wants swap backing; I'm going to be that
> his system will have no swap, in order to avoid write
> cycles using up his flash... he probably just wants a small
> amount of volatile storage for /var/run, /var/log, and /tmp,
> with everything else mounted read-only to avoid the access
> timestamp updates.

Yeah, I should have been more clear.  The recipe I gave him didn't
reserve any swap, and I don't think there's be any attempt to write to
disk unless he filled memory.

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