From: Jan Seeger <jan.seeger@thenybble.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:47:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080317074757.GA7452@venus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205703808.21435.45.camel@bunyip.localdomain>
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On Sun, 16. Mar, W.Kenworthy spammed my inbox with
> I believe that writing a file to a single location is not the way to do
> this: you need to write a byte to the usb key in the same location, but
> need to ensure it continually changes: perhaps rotating 1's/0's.
> Alternatively, the concern is that the FAT/inode table or the like is
> where the most wear will occur - perhaps concentrate there?
Yeah, if I have the stick mounted sync and always copy and delete a file, some
bytes should get flipped around regularly. *If* there is no internal wear
leveling, that is. On USB sticks with internal wear leveling, you will, from a
size of about 1 GB upwards, never (Well, perhaps after 10 years...) see a
failure due to media wear.
For the record: My USB stick has now gone through 78560 read/write cycles and is
still happily copying.
Regards,
Jan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-17 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-14 18:27 [gentoo-user] jffs2 on gentoo James
2008-03-14 18:52 ` Dan Farrell
2008-03-15 20:08 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2008-03-15 23:14 ` Stroller
2008-03-16 8:38 ` Jan Seeger
2008-03-16 9:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-16 18:03 ` Jan Seeger
2008-03-16 21:43 ` W.Kenworthy
2008-03-16 21:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-17 7:47 ` Jan Seeger [this message]
2008-03-15 10:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2008-03-15 19:38 ` dexters84
2008-03-15 20:17 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2008-03-15 23:19 ` Stroller
2008-03-16 0:08 ` dexters84
2008-03-17 18:10 ` James
2008-03-18 1:47 ` Stroller
2008-03-18 10:33 ` Florian Philipp
2008-03-18 13:47 ` Stroller
2008-03-18 19:02 ` dexters84
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