On 2/3/2010 6:18 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message<[email protected]>, Bob Camp writes: >> Hi >> >> If half the disk is un-used, there's a *lot* of space to move the directory >> sectors off to as they wear ... > > Yeah, well, only if the Flash-Adaptation-Layer *know* they are unused. > > That is why you need to tell Flash drives when you delete files, that the > content sectors are now unused, otherwise the FAL will faithfully carry > their content around, wearing out your flash-cells doing so.
Well, you can always partition the disk in half, and literally never write to the "last half" of the disk (which is what I thought Bob to be suggesting in his post). Jordan _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
