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On Monday 17 August 2009 15:25:00 Gordon Dexter wrote:
> Not just that, but there's another problem with having the swap on an SD
> drive. You then suddenly have a system that you can forcefully unplug the
> swap from without warning the kernel. So the kernel pages out some RAM and
> then your user is playing with the SD slot or perhaps just has a digital
> camera they want to use. I don't think the Linux kernel takes to kindly to
> having the contents of it's RAM disappear. Maybe you trust your users not
> to fiddle, but I sure wouldn't.
The only user is me. I have some concern about accidentally ejecting the card
while in use, but not much.
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