On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:12:25PM +0100, Bob W wrote: > I should think the difference is fairly minimal. To delete all, the system > probably just sets a 'deleted' status for each file entry in the FAT, > whereas to format the card I expect it simply writes a new FAT. In either > case I'd be surprised if there was any great difference in the number of > I/Os.
On my K10D, it's significantly slower to delete-all. -- Matthew Miller [email protected] <http://mattdm.org/> The Definitive Pentax P-TTL Flash Model Guide: <http://pttl.mattdm.org/> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
