On 2/28/07, Marco Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it's not targeted to flash disks (i.e. balance the usage of the disk, > etc.), a filesystem like ext3 could dig holes in it :-)
Not true--flash _disks_ present a block access layer, and write-levelling is done at block-translation time (otherwise, digital cameras, USB keychain drives, and MP3 players, all of which usually use FAT, would be falling over left and right). You only need to worry about write levelling if your driver is directly writing to honest-to-goodness, block-at-a-time flash chips, without any virtualization. Easy test--if you can write less than a block at a time (usually 128k) to flash, then you're using a virtualization layer, which should be capable of wear-levelling. :-) One thing you might want to do in either case is changing configuration parameters to reduce the number of writes you do overall, though (for example, turning off last-access-time recording, which Windows CE does automatically and which you can do under Linux via mount arguments). -- Tim Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
