Re: Running linux in a RAM drive, was flash bootable Linux

>>     You could, but the system would usually put swap on the root
>>     partition.  Since swap is a lot of writes, and many flash-memory
>>     drives don't survive large numbers of writes, it is known to
>>     destroy the flash-memory drive.

>>     The advantage of the systems that are designed to use flash-memory
>>     is that they minimize the writes to flash-memory (usually only on
>>     shutdown), thus preserving it.  There are a number of systems
>>     designed this way, but the most popular are Puppy and DSL (both of
>>     which are often used in systems that boot and run entirely from a
>>     CF card), but there are some others.