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On 3/21/25 5:08 PM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> On 21/03/2025 11:31, c186282 wrote:
>>> "Internet appliances" like some router/firewalls are a
>>>    small Linux system under the cover and *sometimes* can
>>>    cope with EXT3/EXT4 sticks, but never tried F2FS.
>>
>> My home Pi's run off SD cards but never in normal use write to them AT 
>> ALL.
>> There is a series of configuration you can do that moves logging to 
>> RAMdisk and any temporary files to RAMdisk as well - and you turn swap 
>> off.
>>
>> For small applications that is a perfect way to have access to Linux, 
>> but not go to the expense of a proper SSD
> 
> This is the truth! I do the same thing, and they happily chug along for 
> years.

   Had one running a decade that way - old Pi, the one with
   fewer GPIO pins - did it's one little job so quietly I
   forgot it was there. Anyway, for most Pi uses what you
   describe is probably the ideal setup.

   And with modern RAM capacities, swap should never be
   needed.