No surprise on memory

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:
> What about using a NAND partition as swap?  Has this ever been done?
> Given that partition support is a recent development it seems unlikely.

There's been discussion on this list about it. I don't think the mtd
driver does any wear-levelling, and the swap usage patterns are
probably murder.

googling about I landed this paper from an Intel guy -
http://www.google.com.ar/search?q=linux+swap+mtd+nand

www.celinux.org/elc08_presentations/belyakov_elc2008_compressed_swap_final_doc.pdf

cheers,



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