Re: swap file over jffs2 partition

David Newall
2008-03-02T13:56:20Z

Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> The wear-levelling only makes all erase blocks/chunks/... wear out at
> the same rate (at least more or less). It doesn't avoid or reduce
> wearing out, it just distributes it.
>

Surely a unit with one defective block and a squillion good blocks is
faulty. Sure it is. It has a fault, which is what it means to be
faulty. Spread the wear of that one block over all squillion and one
blocks and you get a much longer lifetime. It seems intuitive that
distributing wear significantly increases time to failure.