Quote Originally Posted by Capricorny View Post
Some comments:

1. I think the "nowear" cheatcode should not always be used. When doing heavy work involving the persistent store, like package upgrading, I think it may be better to skip the ramdisk layer. The ramdisk layer is for "everyday", not "administrative" use.
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But there is actually an easier way to accomplish the "nowear" thing, is to ask operating system to be lazy on writing to flash. Here is one write up of such thing :-

http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/linux-on-flash.html

I thought this is a more elegant solution than to mimic the operating system behaviour in userspace.