Re: A question on the "read only" kernel details.

--- Oren Beck orenbeck@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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