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Subject: Re: What is ANAND header?
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:30:58 +0800
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On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 20:12 +1100, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 15:49 +0900, Seongsu Lee wrote:
> > Then, is there any technical reason that translation layer
> > for bare NAND flash memory is *not* exist?
> 
> Just because it is a damn difficult task. 

No it isn't. It's just not an _interesting_ task. A 'normal' file system
on top of a translation layer is always going to be suboptimal when
compared to a file system designed to run directly on flash.

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dwmw2