[ltp] Slightly OT: where are the 10GHz P6 thinkpads?
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Wed, 7 Dec 2005 16:02:22 -0500
That's why on linux the logs go to a different partition (/var). The OS can be on read-only media, whether by protection or physical limitation.
---- Macskassy Csaba <bitumen@tuxworld.homelinux.org> wrote:
> >> 2. Intel is making CPU's differently depending on your system. They now
> >> want
> >> to make some sort of flash memory to be in the system, in that case you
> >> would
> >> install the OS in a "flash drive" and then it would boot like half the
> >> time it
> >> normally takes.
> >>
> I don't get it. The lifetime of souch a drive would be very short. Just
> imagine that there is 24/7 writing (logs etc.) on a flash drive.
>
> Regards,
> Csaba
>
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