Thread: How to upgrade the internal memory by extending the root filesystem to a memory card
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schmolch is offline schmolch
2006-08-19 , 21:28
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#165
Originally Posted by fanoush
well, you can't boot from fat or have exact copy of linux filesystem on fat, what exacly did you measure and how? You also need to be aware of filesystem cache and flush it somehow before each test.
I used fat cause i was too lazy to make a ext2 and backup all my stuff. So i just copied /usr to the mmc and tar'ed it to /dev/null from there. I know thats kinda ugly and maybe i even copied whole dirs that were supposed to be only links on ext2.


Btw... initially i was wondering if the mmc card would not be slower than the internal Memory.
But now i got the impression the internal memory is flash too.
Now we got the opposite case because if both are flash one would have to assume that the mmc-card is faster because its newer (and therefore has higher density and higher speed, not sure if this assumption is correct in that case though).