Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3)

Daniel Egger
2003-07-27T14:13:34Z

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Am Son, 2003-07-27 um 15.28 schrieb Hans Reiser:

> it is suitable for any flash device that has wear leveling built into
> the hardware (e.g. all compact flash cards)

Are you sure CF cards have wear leveling? I'm pretty confident that they
have defect sector management but no wear leveling. There's a huge
difference between those two.

> or for which a wear leveling block device driver is used (I don't know
> if one exists for Linux).

This is normally done by the filesystem (e.g. JFFS2).

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Servus,
Daniel

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