-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2013-04-16 at 07:46 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
"Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
That was true in 2005. In 2013 pretty much all SSDs and even thumb drives have wear leveling logic.
But not enough. According to <https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/KernelArchived/Projects/FlashCardSurvey?action=show&redirect=WorkingGroups%2FKernel%2FProjects%2FFlashCardSurvey> "Flash memory card design", most portable flash media is optimized for FAT in several ways. For example, the start of the disk, the region where the FAT would be, is optimized for the expected use of a FAT table. There is a new filesystem type that is optimized for use in cheap flash media: f2fs, introduced by Samsung developers in October. <http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-3-8-Part-1-Filesystems-and-storage-1788524.html> Kernel Log - Coming in 3.8 (Part 1) Filesystems and storage <http://lwn.net/Articles/518988/> An f2fs teardown - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFteKYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UALQCgk6Q4Q35pXAWkYG007ecwiuUZ i30AnAs91FbT0glmmTm36eK5CClkc2MP =wej7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org