Is Chromium OS optimized to run from flash media?
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Schultzter
May 10, 2012, 10:07:06 AM5/10/12
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I received an older laptop out of which I removed the IDE hard drive
and put in a CF card using a CF-to-IDE adapter. I've installed Tiny
Core Linux on it and it's working great. But I'm really curious to try
Chromium, but I know it's best to minimize writes to CF cards (and
other flash media like USB drives).
I was wondering if it was un-wise to run Chromium from a CF card? Does
it minimize writes to the "hard drive" or is it like any other Linux-
based OS without specific optimizations for flash media?
Thanks,
and put in a CF card using a CF-to-IDE adapter. I've installed Tiny
Core Linux on it and it's working great. But I'm really curious to try
Chromium, but I know it's best to minimize writes to CF cards (and
other flash media like USB drives).
I was wondering if it was un-wise to run Chromium from a CF card? Does
it minimize writes to the "hard drive" or is it like any other Linux-
based OS without specific optimizations for flash media?
Thanks,
Micah Catlin
May 10, 2012, 12:29:49 PM5/10/12
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I think it would be a very reasonable experiment.
ChromiumOS doesn't enable a kernel swapfile, so the number of writes to disk will be limited to the amount of activity your web activities generate in the cache and settings database.
Furthermore, you don't need a lot of space, so you could try a 16 Gb card (like this one from newegg) and not be out too much money even if it does go bad.
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Mike Frysinger
May 10, 2012, 1:30:40 PM5/10/12
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CF cards typically have a FTL in between and presents itself as just
another block layer. so that should take care of wear leveling and
other fun details and Linux doesn't get any insight.
in general, we focus on making sure ChromeOS runs well on official
devices. if that indirectly helps other targets, then good, but we
don't really keep track. if you want to give it a try and report
back, i'm sure someone will appreciate it ;). we also aren't against
taking changes which improve things for other targets and aren't
detrimental to official ones.
-mike
another block layer. so that should take care of wear leveling and
other fun details and Linux doesn't get any insight.
in general, we focus on making sure ChromeOS runs well on official
devices. if that indirectly helps other targets, then good, but we
don't really keep track. if you want to give it a try and report
back, i'm sure someone will appreciate it ;). we also aren't against
taking changes which improve things for other targets and aren't
detrimental to official ones.
-mike
Schultzter
May 10, 2012, 4:56:50 PM5/10/12
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Well, I'm currently running Tiny Core off a 1 GB card.
I guess if Chromium OS is NOT optimized to run on flash media then we
already have the answer without having to really try it. I'll either
get an SSD for Chromium or stick with Tiny Core.
On May 10, 12:29 pm, Micah Catlin <mic...@chromium.org> wrote:
> I think it would be a very reasonable experiment.
>
> ChromiumOS doesn't enable a kernel swapfile, so the number of writes to
> disk will be limited to the amount of activity your web activities generate
> in the cache and settings database.
>
> Furthermore, you don't need a lot of space, so you could try a 16 Gb card
> (like this one from
> newegg<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820313223>)
I guess if Chromium OS is NOT optimized to run on flash media then we
already have the answer without having to really try it. I'll either
get an SSD for Chromium or stick with Tiny Core.
On May 10, 12:29 pm, Micah Catlin <mic...@chromium.org> wrote:
> I think it would be a very reasonable experiment.
>
> ChromiumOS doesn't enable a kernel swapfile, so the number of writes to
> disk will be limited to the amount of activity your web activities generate
> in the cache and settings database.
>
> Furthermore, you don't need a lot of space, so you could try a 16 Gb card
> (like this one from
> and not be out too much money even if it does go bad.
>
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> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Schultzter <e...@schultzter.ca> wrote:
> > I received an older laptop out of which I removed the IDE hard drive
> > and put in a CF card using a CF-to-IDE adapter. I've installed Tiny
> > Core Linux on it and it's working great. But I'm really curious to try
> > Chromium, but I know it's best to minimize writes to CF cards (and
> > other flash media like USB drives).
>
> > I was wondering if it was un-wise to run Chromium from a CF card? Does
> > it minimize writes to the "hard drive" or is it like any other Linux-
> > based OS without specific optimizations for flash media?
>
> > Thanks,
>
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> > Chromium OS discuss mailing list: chromium-os-disc...@chromium.org
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> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Schultzter <e...@schultzter.ca> wrote:
> > I received an older laptop out of which I removed the IDE hard drive
> > and put in a CF card using a CF-to-IDE adapter. I've installed Tiny
> > Core Linux on it and it's working great. But I'm really curious to try
> > Chromium, but I know it's best to minimize writes to CF cards (and
> > other flash media like USB drives).
>
> > I was wondering if it was un-wise to run Chromium from a CF card? Does
> > it minimize writes to the "hard drive" or is it like any other Linux-
> > based OS without specific optimizations for flash media?
>
> > Thanks,
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