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Originally Posted by lma View Post
Survival over what period and usage pattern? Keep in mind that flash writes impact the entire block device (not partition), so having things like swap, journal, .ash_history etc on the same chip have a cumulative wear effect.
My own internal 4GB SDHC that I've been using since mid-2007 to boot from and for swap and dozens of other people's similar arrangements on both N800s and N810s.

Originally Posted by lma View Post
BTW, there was some speculation that there's an extra (faster?) memory device in the RX-51 specifically for swap use, but I've lost track - was that ever confirmed either way? If there is, it could also be used to store the ext3 journal.
There's not.
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