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    SubjectRe: ext2 on flash memory
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    On Tuesday 12 June 2007 23:09, Jason Lunz wrote:
    > In gmane.linux.kernel, you wrote:
    > > I was wondering: is there any reason not to use ext2 on an USB
    > > pendrive? Really my question is not only about USB pendrives, but any
    > > device whose storage is flash based. Let's assume that the device has a
    > > good quality flash memory with wear leveling and the like...
    >
    > Have a look at the UBI layer. It adds wear-levelling to MTD devices. Of
    > course, to use it on a regular blockdev like this you'll have to do
    > something like usb-storage (sd) -> block2mtd -> ubi -> jffs2. But it can
    > be done afaik.

    Then you will do some kind of wear leveling (jffs2) over wear leveling
    (pendrive). Does this makes sense?

    Juergen
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