Re: JFFS2 mount time

Jörn Engel
2004-12-18T16:03:15Z

On Fri, 17 December 2004 11:35:04 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> Again, most controllers do all the wear leveling, erasing for you. So
> you are left with compression, right?

If you have enough trust in your El Cheapo hardware supplier. There
is no standard that requires wear leveling and there are reports that
basically tell you to do your own wear leveling on some devices. With
no good way to distinguish "some" devices from "others", you can read
that as "all". ;)

USB keys and all the various other consumer-type flash devices are
good enough to beat 3 1/2" floppies, that's about it. But that's
quite good enough for most people. Floppies sold like crazy after
all.

Jörn

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