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Hi Artem,

Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
>> But due to some properties of interleaving algorithm it is very likely
>> get increased erase size in case of striping thre ore more devices with
>> different size.
> Brrr... The resulting eraseblock size is anyway increased. I guess you
> wanted to say that one may end up with *substantially* increased
> eraseblock size, right?

Yes, you're right.

> So, to be generic, we have to say that the interleave size has to be
> multiple to the minimal flash input/output unit size.

Thanks for your clarification!

Alexander Belyakov