[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] swapfile is a huge improvement!

[From: Dave Neuer]

On 1/14/06, Juha Yrjölä <juha.yrjola at nokia.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 10:33 +0000, ext Clemens Eisserer wrote:
>
> > But keep in mind that a swap-file means meany reads/writes to the same
> > areas of flash which will for sure lead to the death of the mmc later
> > or sooner.
>
> Not really, since the flash controller on an MMC card is supposed to do
> wear-levelling. The FAT blocks, for example, would die pretty quickly
> otherwise, since they're written to very often.

So, is there any benefit to JFFS2 on MMC other than compression (which
I guess for swap is either not necessary or even counter-productive)?

Dave