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Journal hotspotbloc's Journal: Question: Swap on flash?

So I have an ARM board with 64M of DRAM, 64M on board flash and an 1G RS-MMC running Debian (quite nicely). Right now I'm running it without a swap partition and memory is getting tight. Here's the questions:

- Can I run a swap part on flash without damaging said memory?

- Could it run for years without failure or will the flash memory tank in a few weeks?

- Has anyone tried this with success or failure?

BTW, I'd add more RAM but what I have is attached to the board and there's no room for expansion.

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