A question on the "read only" kernel details.

[Leo Mauler]

--- Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Flash memories of some cheaper design have
> limited write cycles.  Having the OS on a 
> flash drive that only gets written to when 
> the OS itself is changed as in moving from 
> a 5.x up to 7.06 type change. So the flash 
> will not be "worn out"

If you can mount most of the "frequently-used" stuff
on an actual hard drive, you could simply use the USB
drive as /boot, which gets written to only when the
kernel changes.  This sounds roughly like what you
want in the first place.


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