On 08/09 10:21 , Tim Underwood wrote:
> Swapping on a CF card - is that undesireable because of the amount of
> I/O (shortening the life of the CF card), or speed, or ????

shortens the life of the card. flash disks support far fewer R/W cycles than
magnetic media. in theory, your swap partition might wear out in a time
short enough that you'll notice it.

in practice; if your swap partition is sufficiently large, and the
wear-leveling algorithm in the card sufficiently good, and the amount of
activity sufficiently low (all of which are not unusual in an of
themselves); you shouldn't have any issues.

even if you do; CF disks aren't that expensive anymore; and it's easy to
transfer an installed system from one to another. (once you do it
sucessfully, it'll seem easy).

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com