Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3) | From | Yury Umanets <> | Date | Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:15:05 +0400 |
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On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 18:10, Daniel Egger wrote: > Am Son, 2003-07-27 um 15.28 schrieb Hans Reiser: > > > it is suitable for any flash device that has wear leveling built into > > the hardware (e.g. all compact flash cards) > > Are you sure CF cards have wear leveling? I'm pretty confident that they > have defect sector management but no wear leveling. There's a huge > difference between those two. > > > or for which a wear leveling block device driver is used (I don't know > > if one exists for Linux). > > This is normally done by the filesystem (e.g. JFFS2).
Normally device driver should be concerned about making wear out smaller. It is up to it IMHO.
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