[Ardour-Dev] Funding: Build and Sell Hardware

[Mark Knecht]

I'm SURE you are right about it being only part of what they do.

And I'm fairly sure it's probably different for every distro committed
to a flash drive. ;-)

Cheers,
Mark

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Thomas Vecchione <seablaede at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes this also matches mine as well, but I tihnk may only be one part of what
> they do.  I admit to not having looked to closely though.
>
>      Seablade
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The ones I've looked at actually put all the highly written stuff in
>> memory using something like squashfs while the distro is running and
>> then if it's needed at the next boot will save it to Flash when you do
>> an orderly shutdown. This helps reduce the number of real write/erase
>> cycles on the Flash device.
>>
>> At least that is my understanding of it.
>>
>> - Mark
>
>