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Originally Posted by nashith View Post
@mrojas, I have experienced a lot of failures based on flash degradation on various smartphones utilizing flash for storage of vital system information (not removable flash). But since Maemo is Linux, I was wondering if such a scenario happens, can we partition a µSD with a swap and configure Maemo to use that partition (will be slower, but could work right?)
You can make that happen, but it's quite a bit of trouble for no real gain. You're swapping on a 32GB eMMC device, so, as beaten to death in other threads, there is no realistic chance of wearing that out in the device's lifetime.
 

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