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Old 10-07-2007, 10:00 AM
Christopher Hunter
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Re: Flash drive as disk cache

Arthur Dent wrote:

> Hello,
>
> is there any linux driver that makes it possible to use an flash drive
> like an USB stick as cache for the disks?


/Not/ a good idea. Flash memory has a very limited number of writes
available, and would quickly become unusable. It's also /very/ slow
compared to your system memory.

Buy some more memory for your machine, and allocate some RAM disks. You can
use one for swap and another for disk cache, if you want.

C.
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Old 10-07-2007, 10:00 AM