Subject: Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3)
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jussi Laako <jussi.laako@pp.inet.fi>
Cc: Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 18:14, Jussi Laako wrote:
> Most Linux filesystems can't be used properly with flash devices because
> of unability to handle write errors caused by flash wearing out. FS
> should mark the block as bad and relocate the data.

This is typically done by the pseudo-filesystem (FTL, NFTL, etc.) which
is used to emulate a hard drive on flash storage; the 'real' file system
itself doesn't need to do it for itself. 

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dwmw2

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