On Thursday 26 May 2011, Patrick Fu wrote:
> > There are many reasons why this could happen:
> >
> > * You used a Kingston (or other cheap) SD card with a file system other
> > than FAT32
> >
>
> I'm just curious. How could this thing (file system type) affect read/write
> operations?
> Could you explain it a little?
>
See my article at https://lwn.net/Articles/428584/ and the survey at
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Kernel/Projects/FlashCardSurvey.
Many cheap cards are designed for a very specific file system layout. If you
do something else, you can have orders of magnitude higher write amplification.
Arnd
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