From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from creative.actrix.co.nz ([203.96.26.135]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16a1z9-0007X2-00 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:58:11 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Charles Manning Reply-To: manningc2@actrix.gen.nz To: David Mackay , Linux MTD Lists Subject: Re: CF Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:03:28 +1300 References: <20020206162551.30552.qmail@web20309.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020206162551.30552.qmail@web20309.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020210220705.4B5021212@creative.actrix.co.nz> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: About 2 weeks back there was a bit of a discussion on this.... * To the best of my knowledge, CF does not perform any explicite wear levelling. Rather, the method used to cycle through the blocks will tend to result in some wear levelling. I agree with Vipin re CF's reliability. It is a Kleenex technology. It is not very robust and is prone to curruption on many fronts. -- CHarles On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 05:25, David Mackay wrote: > We have just been informed that CF disks have wear > levelling built in and we do not need therfore to > consider a file system such as JFFS(2), is this true? > > Is so any comments about how sucsessful it is? > > Thanks, David > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > ______________________________________________________ > Linux MTD discussion mailing list > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/