Thread: [DISCUSS] SDCard Swap Partition Methods..
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sulu is offline sulu
2012-05-21 , 15:11
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Originally Posted by vi_ View Post
It should be noted that if you do put swap on SD that you can under no circumstance take the back cover off when the swap is mounted on the SD. When you do this the MMC is insta-umounted with respect to no man.
I read that over and over again but my N900 doesn't behave that way. When I just open the back cover absolutely nothing happens. The ext2 partition (does the FS matter?) on my sd card is still mounted and useable and I have no problems related to the swap partition on it either. Does this mean my magnetic sensor doesn't work?
I also often read that if you connect a N900 with an sd card to a PC in PC suite mode the card gets unmounted from the N900 and mounted by the PC. But if I connect my N900 to one of my PC's (all of them running Debian, no idea if that matters) the ext2 partition remains mounted on the N900 and I can mount it from the PC. I can then read data simultaneously but writing from either side without manually unmounting the other side in advance results in FS corruption. Anyone?

Originally Posted by peterleinchen View Post
Only the compcache I am worried about. Followed the zram thing, but it stopped somehow. I do not know the latest status, so I would like to ask anybody about feedback (otherwise I would propose to disable that?).
What exactly are you worried about? I tried it on my N900 but didn't see any changes, neither improvements nor regressions. So I stopped that again. But I have zram running (and actually in use) on my HTPC 24/7 for about a month now and as far as I'm concerned (which of course is not representative) it's stable.
 

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