Flash writings limit?

[David Woodhouse]

jradc at tid.es said:
>     Is it harmful to the flash memory if the whole filesystem tree in
> linux is intalled on flash (including /tmp /var and other directories
> with a high rate of writing operations) ? I have Strata Flash with
> JFFS2  installed.

It depends how much you actually write to those directories, but yes - it's 
advisable to put them elsewhere. The iPAQ uses ramfs for /tmp and some of 
the subdirectories of /var - that seems like a sensible plan.

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dwmw2