[GRLUG] swap benchmarking

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 00:10:59 EST 2007


On 2/19/07, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> Doesn't flash have the limitation of a finite
> number of r/w cycles?  Some says it's in
> the millions,  but if used like a hard drive,
> this could lead to trouble.

I believe so.  However, Linux swapfs already has a bitmask in it to
mark bad blocks.  That particular feature hasn't been useful with
modern drives, but it could prove useful again for flash swap.

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:wq


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