On Mar 9, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 09 March 2011 17:31:24 Kevin Gordon wrote: >> go, no-go, spend the extra pennies and get a Class 4/6/8/10 > > Note that Class 8 does not exist (except fakes) and class 10 is > usually not faster than class 6 if you run ext3 on it. > > Also, a Sandisk card is usually faster than a card from > most other manufacturers even if they are one class faster > nominally.
I'll call BS on that claim. Sandisk cards are all over the map, depending on the controller used internally. Please understand that these manufacturers change controllers all the time --- tests results from nine months ago are invalid. > See > https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/KernelConsolidation/Projects/FlashCardSurvey > for a list of many cards. Go for a brand that has a larger > number of open segments. Also make sure that the partition > is aligned to 4 MB, otherwise you waste half the performance > and expected life. We align our images to 8 MB boundaries, as 4MB isn't enough for some cards. Since fs-update installs the partition table as well as the partition images, this happens automatically. Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel