On 2/12/07, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/12/07, Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon.jongsma at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Note that this flash-drive-as-swap is supposedly one of the new
> > features of Windows Vista.  This is from the FAQ [1]:
> > Q: Won't this wear out the drive?
> > A: Nope. We're aware of the lifecycle issues with flash drives and are
> > smart about how and when we do our writes to the device. Our research
> > shows that we will get at least 10+ years out of flash devices that we
> > support.
> >
> > I have no idea how long a device would last with a similar setup under linux...
> >
> > [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02/615199.aspx
>
> This is really immaterial.  They're assuming that the flash device
> will be used as flash devices normally are - as portable data transfer
> media, not as swap.  It really doesn't matter which OS the device is
> used with...rather, it's *how* the device is used.

Huh?  did you read the article?  It was *all* about using the flash
drive as swap.

-- 
jonner