Agreed. But from the external view, all you see are sectors that you can read and write.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Lennart Sorensen < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:47:07AM -0400, Jim Donelson wrote: > > . > > As far as the card is concerned, it just has sectors you can read and > write. > > Where are these "lists" kept? The spec never address this. > > The spec covers the external interface. The internal implementation > details is not a concern for the spec. > > So you can make a card that simply gives you a fixed mapping. Filesystems > like FAT would kill that rather quickly. > > You can make one that does full lovely wear leveling and it would last > much longer. > > Other than one dying sooner than the other, there is no difference that > the user can see from the outside. Both would provide a certain number > of sectors that you can access. How those sectors map to the flash > chips internally is really none of the users business. > > -- > Len Sorensen > _______________________________________________ > uClinux-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev > This message was resent by [email protected] > To unsubscribe see: > http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev >
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