[Nottingham] FLASH vs HDD

Camilo Mesias camilo at mesias.co.uk
Wed Oct 31 13:25:22 GMT 2007


> > And what is the best fs for flash?
> JFFS - there's limited write cycles to flash devices - try to avoid destroying
> the device!

Only if it's really a flash device (eg. /dev/mtd0). Flash usb drives
already run wear levelling / error correction and emulate a block
device on top of that - so FS designed for true flash are usually not
appropriate.

-Cam



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