Chris Lawson <no_spam@192.168.0.4> writes:
>Martin Pearce wrote:
>> Just for the hell of it I attached a £50 8GB SanDisk USB flash stick
>> to a Blade 1000 Solaris 10 Workstation.
>>
>
>Flash devices have a limited number of write / erase cycles. Smoething
>like 100000 ISTR. Let's hope you're not swapping too much as your flash
>stick may knacker up pretty quick.
>

Swapping? On a recent version of Solaris?

-Greg
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Greg Andrews <gerg@panix.com> wrote:
> Chris Lawson <no_spam@192.168.0.4> writes:
>>Flash devices have a limited number of write / erase cycles. Smoething
>>like 100000 ISTR. Let's hope you're not swapping too much as your flash
>>stick may knacker up pretty quick.
>>
> Swapping? On a recent version of Solaris?

Presumably paging would hurt as much. But I can't think of anything in
recent versions of Solaris that would make it less prone to swap than
other versions.

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ddunham@taos.com (Darren Dunham) writes:
>Greg Andrews <gerg@panix.com> wrote:
>> Chris Lawson <no_spam@192.168.0.4> writes:
>>>Flash devices have a limited number of write / erase cycles. Smoething
>>>like 100000 ISTR. Let's hope you're not swapping too much as your flash
>>>stick may knacker up pretty quick.
>>>
>> Swapping? On a recent version of Solaris?
>
>Presumably paging would hurt as much. But I can't think of anything in
>recent versions of Solaris that would make it less prone to swap than
>other versions.
>

Well, I was using an unusual definition of "recent". I was thinking
"2.5.1 and later", where actual swapping is very unusual. So I'm not
sure what read/write activity would be done on the flash drive (aside
from a system image upon a crash).

-Greg
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