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installing linux on fast usb flash drive without swap..
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Old 06-27-2008, 07:25 PM
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Default installing linux on fast usb flash drive without swap..

Hi,

Would I gain anything by installing the whole yellow dog 6.0 on a usb flash drive (corsair flash voyager GT) it is fairly fast for a usb-drive (34 MB/s read and 25 MB/s write). Then I could actually take swap out of use ?

What do you guys think?

I was also planning to use a CF to SATA adapter, but then I read from this thread that the disk access would be too slow anyway? Maybe there would be some gain in access speeds though ? Or maybe they could even be combined...

If I had a 8 GB CF connected to SATA adapter and installed a YDL 6.0 on it.. wouldn't that make the swap useless if I just wan't normal desktop/mediacenter use?

I have already made my YDL quite light by using Fluxbox as the window manager and disabling the GDM.

Please comment if you have any better ideas?
Where could I get the actual numbers about the hypervisor limitations for PS3 I/O transfer rates?

-Tapani
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