[Coco] coco x and now zipit

[Steven Hirsch]

On Sat, 4 May 2013, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Saturday 04 May 2013 07:52:39 lciotti1 at gmail.com did opine:
>
>> XRoar will run on some portable hardware.
>>
>> Speaking of portable hardware.  I have a Zipit , and put linux on it,
>> but it seems only seems to run for a little while before it starts
>> haveing errors accessing the sd card.  I thing it might be the card,
>> but has anyone gotting a version of linux that only runs the CLI and
>> will run X is I choose?
>
> Linux has several "filesystems" available, with the default ext2-3-4 family
> being hard on SD cards with their frequent system maintenance writes, so
> you may have to get a new SD card.  The wear leveling built into the card
> can eventually use up its rewrite mechanism.
>
> There are linux filesystems that do not wear out SD cards, and there are
> options you can set to stretch the life, so before you put another new card
> in it, do some reading, or join the linux-scsi mailing list and ask for
> advice there.

Yes, Google for "linux TRIM".  There are ways to make ext filesystem I/O 
less aggravating to solid-state storage.



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