Hi Luke,

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 02:04:59 +0000
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:

> good to see there's progress on this.  do make sure to use a UHC Class
> 10 micro-sd card (the ones that say they are 75-80mbytes/sec), they
> will happily run at 20-25mbytes/sec read/write speed, which is about
> the same speed as an SSD from around 2012.

Yes, I got such a card now, seems to write (including sync) quite quickly
on my laptop at least.

> yes, the idea is to upgrade (and sell or repurpose the old one).  this
> is the *first* in the series.

I understand.

> for building can i recommend using "-Wl,--no-keep-memory" and report
> if it helps, here:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22831

Yeah, we've now added the linker option to several packages.
It improves the situation a lot.

Thanks!