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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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Jörn Engel wrote:
> But hoping for manufacturers to get it right rarely works - it certainly
> didn't work in this case.  As it seems, we can either program two planes
> in a weird lock-step process or ignore the feature.  And the lock-step
> variant isn't useful for much more than doubling/quadrupling the
> erasesize and writesize.  With all the disadvantages that brings. :(

Did you see if the dual plane feature at least allows erasing the next
block while writing the current one, so you can do continuous
streaming log writes without big pauses?

-- Jamie