by hikaru » Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:12 pm
@snyggsomfan:
Sorry for reanimating this dead thread, but as you did nearly exactly the same that I'd like to do, I have some questions.
V3205 and Si 1520 are nearly identical, so your experiences should help me.
I'd like to boot Debian from a SDHC-card in an Expresscard-Cardreader. Do you use an Expresscard-SSD or a Cardreader+Card?
Did you try to suspend the HDD via hdparm -Y or something similar?
What have you done to prevent the OS from permanently writing to the flash-memory?
In VirtualBox I successfully tested to install debian without swap; mount /tmp, /var/log, /var/lock, /var/run and /var/tmp to a tmpfs and mount the HDD with ext2 and noatime.
Additionally I created a 512MB ramdisk to store data in a single session.
Is there something more (still reasonable) that can be done to reduce the write-accesses to the drive?