On 26.05.04, 17:28:51, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> Rafe wrote:
> >
> 
> >Has anyone had any luck with the Magicstor 2.2+ GB
> >microdrives?  I have had some success with a SanDisk
> >512MB CF card, but found I kept getting out of swap
> >space errors when trying to compile large programs. 
> 
> >Is it true that I don't want to make a swap file when
> >using soild state cf storage cards?
> 

When going to compile large programs I mount a swap space over nfs.
It's not fast, either, but it works and I won't have to worry about
wrecking my Flash card too soon.

For  emergencies I have a 8MB swap partition on the flash card,
but that is not normally mounted.

> 
> Bryan

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