[mdlug] SSD - flashcache or bcache

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 06:18 -0500, Peter Bart wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Also, using flash for swap space is just going to wear out very
> > expensive memory very quickly.
> FWIW I've been using flash memory for swap; among others; in several
> devices for several years and have yet to experience failure.

+1.  The failure thing is greatly exaggerated.  Yes it will fail,
someday - who cares?  When it fails you replace it.  I cannot think of a
better place to have swap - including your system's hibernation image -
than on SSD.


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