Re: Cf Card vs DiskOnChip

[Nikhil Goel <nikhil@smartbridges.com>]

David Woodhouse wrote:

> rrhsin@yahoo.co.in said:
> 
>>industrial environment. I am unable to decide whether to use a Compact
>>Flash card or DiskOnChip.With 128MB I need to get the whole thing
>>running. Can someone plese tell me as which one to use and why? 
> 
> The downside of the DiskOnChip is that the Linux driver doesn't do wear 
> levelling, although it's easy enough to add, and that the vendor's driver 
> is a binary-only module and hence of dubious legality.
> 
> I would go for the DiskOnChip and add wear levelling support - all you need 
> to do it make it randomly pick a clean block for erasure occasionally, to 
> make sure stuff moves around over time.


Isn't that similar to the implementation of JFFS? So a DiskOnChip 
running on the CVS based driver with JFFS should suffice for 
wear-levelling! if I am missing some piece here, what should I rtfm?

regards,
nikhil



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