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

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:

--- Oren Beck [email protected] wrote:

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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:>