On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 18:10, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Son, 2003-07-27 um 15.28 schrieb Hans Reiser:
>
> > it is suitable for any flash device that has wear leveling built into
> > the hardware (e.g. all compact flash cards)
>
> Are you sure CF cards have wear leveling? I'm pretty confident that they
> have defect sector management but no wear leveling. There's a huge
> difference between those two.
>
> > or for which a wear leveling block device driver is used (I don't know
> > if one exists for Linux).
>
> This is normally done by the filesystem (e.g. JFFS2).
Normally device driver should be concerned about making wear out
smaller. It is up to it IMHO.
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