# Source: flashybrid # Package: flashybrid # Versions: # Prioritize: 40 Description: automates use of a flash disk as the root filesystem Flashybrid is a system to help in setting up and managing hybrid flash/disk/ram based Debian systems which can run most of the time using only a small flash disk for their root filesystem and do a useful, but limited task (such as being a router, or a PDA, or a rescue system on a USB keydrive). The flash can be as small as 32 mb, though 64 to 256 mb is more comfortable. . When such a system needs to be upgraded or managed, or if you need a full-fledged Debian system temporarily, a flashybrid system converts quickly from an embedded system into a larger, normal Debian system. . Flashybrid supports systems with a supplimental hard disk that holds the parts of Debian that cannot fit on flash. It can also support larger flash-based systems with no supplimental hard disk. It makes it easy to mount a flash disk read-only, to avoid excessive writes to the flash, by storing the volatile parts in a ram disk and rsyncing them back to the flash at shutdown. . To use this package, you will need a 2.4 or greater version of the linux kernel, with tmpfs support built in. Description-de: . . . # other Descriptions of the flashybrid package with a translation in de: #