From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Alex J Lennon" <ajlennon@arcom.co.uk>
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: sbc-mediagx
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:54:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11598.968936086@passion.cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NEBBLLDBMLGONJHPHHEKGEMLCHAA.ajlennon@arcom.co.uk>
ajlennon@arcom.co.uk said:
> FlashFx implements VBF to support block access to the media and to
> provide wear levelling amongst other things (I believe). The "Variable
> Block Flash" component is *not* a filesystem. It simply translates
> logical sector requests to physical flash locations.
Similar in principle, then, if not in implementation, to FTL.
A kind of pseudo-filesystem which is used to emulate a block device.
Does it use the concepts which are patented by M-Systems? I believe that
the patents in this area are extremely broad, and cover almost all obvious
methods of implementing wear levelling.
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[not found] <NEBBLLDBMLGONJHPHHEKGEMLCHAA.ajlennon@arcom.co.uk>
2000-09-14 12:54 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2000-09-14 13:12 ` sbc-mediagx Alex J Lennon
2000-09-14 13:20 ` sbc-mediagx David Woodhouse
2000-09-15 20:23 ` sbc-mediagx Scott Anderson
2000-09-29 17:47 re[2]: SBC-MediaGX Tony Questad
2000-09-30 11:19 ` SBC-MediaGX Alex J Lennon
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2000-09-29 12:55 SBC-MediaGX Michiel Ronsse
2000-09-29 15:15 ` SBC-MediaGX David Given
2000-09-29 17:20 ` SBC-MediaGX Michiel Ronsse
[not found] <39C08AB9.1DF0409B@arcom.co.uk>
2000-09-14 10:59 ` sbc-mediagx David Given
2000-09-14 11:45 ` sbc-mediagx Kira Brown
2000-09-13 16:27 sbc-mediagx David Given
2000-09-13 16:43 ` sbc-mediagx David Woodhouse
2000-09-13 17:08 ` sbc-mediagx David Given
2000-09-13 17:37 ` sbc-mediagx David Given
2000-09-13 18:10 ` sbc-mediagx David Given
2000-09-14 9:04 ` sbc-mediagx David Woodhouse
2000-09-14 10:03 ` sbc-mediagx David Given
2000-09-14 11:15 ` sbc-mediagx David Given
2000-09-14 9:35 ` sbc-mediagx David Vrabel
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