[clug] Kernel without initramfs

[Robert Edwards]

Daniel Pittman wrote:
...
> 
> My guess is that you mention it to emphasise the "avoid writes",
> together with your claim that ext3 journalling causes a "fantastic"
> number of writes, correct?
> 
Would it be wrong to guess that journalling (ext3 style) would increase
the number of writes by a factor of a little over 2?

Each write to fs would involve a preliminary write to the journal. Every
now and then (1 sec., 5 secs, whatever) the journal needs to be cleared.
Or is this a little too simplistic?

A more important consideration for ext2 or 3 or most other r/w fs's on
a flash device is to turn off access-time updates to inode metadata.
This is obvious, but I might regain some kudos by grabbing the
low-hanging fruit... :-)
Turn off access-time updates by specifying "noatime" in the mount
options in fstab (usually).

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.

> Regards,
>         Daniel