No surprise on memory

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:51 AM, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> 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.
>
> Swapping to the soldered-in NAND chips is a very bad idea.  It will
> tend to wear them out rapidly.  Even if you use load-leveling software
> (e.g. swapping to a file in a jfffs2 filesystem), the problem is that

While I generally agree with you,
www.celinux.org/elc08_presentations/belyakov_elc2008_compressed_swap_final_doc.pdf
does seem to talk about the mtd driver having special handling for
swap.

cheers,


m
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