[mdlug] Suggestions for flash-drive Linux?

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Richard Harding

> >  The idea is that, in theory, at least some flash drives have better
> > *random* I/O characteristics than hard drives. And this random performance
> > is critical to the performance of page caches, which are not generally
> > very large. So in some circumstances, allegedly, using a flash drive for
> > the page cache can be faster than using a hard drive.

> My understanding is that this is much more to do with 
> sleep/hibernation. 

 Nope, that's a separate issue. Read the link I gave and follow the link
from there to the interview with the Microsoft developer.

 Sincerely,

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