A question on the "read only" kernel details.

[Oren Beck]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  --- 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.
>

THANK you !!! That is perhaps the dragon slayer.

Sighing and fumbling for the Linux in a nutshell book...
Ah - guess I know where this evening is going to:>



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Oren Beck

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