On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 17:19 -0400, Jeff.Fellin at rflelect.com wrote: > I am looking for information in the kernel or elsewhere about flash usage > statistics. I'm interested in knowing how > many times a sector has been erased and written to. This doesn't have to be > for all time, since other tools > can erase and write the flash (U-boot), but just what the activity during > application processing. We use the > flash to store configuration files that are changeable and would like to > determine the expected lifetime > of the chips at use sites. > > Any pointers to places where flash statistics are maintained or tools to > collect these statistics is > appreciated.
You might try http://linux-mtd.infradead.org I'm not aware of any write statistics gathering tools, but MTD is where they would/should be. josh
