Re: [Hampshire] Impressed with gOS - simplicity itself, for …

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Author: Jim Kissel
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Impressed with gOS - simplicity itself, for the right people


Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
> Hang on.... I've always believed that flash memory has a very short life if
> used for swapping. How does a diskless system cope?


The Asus 701 doesn't have a swap partition. The SSD implements "wear
leveling" to extend the life/write cycles of the flash chips. It use an
ext2 filesystem so no journaling and NOATIME.