On 2006/07/24 16:44, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: > > Save yourself a loft of pain and frustration and get a CF large enough > > (256Mb) > > for the base system and use the GENERIC kernel. > > This is also what I experienced as a good size for a CF.
If you're worried about writes, just get a larger CF. They'll have more spare blocks to remap onto. I'd go for >=512 with the size of libraries in 3.9. > By the way, does it make sense to turn off swap to extend the > CF's life time? I do... apart from anything else, it's damn slow writing to CF.
