Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262450AbUFNLpj (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jun 2004 07:45:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262451AbUFNLpi (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jun 2004 07:45:38 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:48601 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262450AbUFNLpg (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jun 2004 07:45:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:45:26 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Daniel Egger Cc: P@draigbrady.com, David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cijoml@volny.cz Subject: Re: jff2 filesystem in vanilla Message-ID: <20040614114526.GA11873@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <200406041000.41147.cijoml@volny.cz> <1086390590.4588.70.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> <3F4B6D09-B6CA-11D8-B781-000A958E35DC@axiros.com> <40C58781.1060200@draigBrady.com> <213F9E7F-BD15-11D8-AAF6-000A958E35DC@axiros.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <213F9E7F-BD15-11D8-AAF6-000A958E35DC@axiros.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 906 Lines: 26 On Sun, 13 June 2004 10:39:05 +0200, Daniel Egger wrote: > On 08.06.2004, at 11:31, P@draigBrady.com wrote: > > >Can you give more detail on how you were able to "kill a card". > > Write to it every now and then using a touchy filesystem > like ext2 and it will certainly break. > > As soon as a CF card starts developing bad blocks you better > (trash-)can them because they're losing reliability very > quickly. In other words, there is absolutely no wear-levelling in either the driver or the card itself. Good to know. J?rn -- If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better. -- John Carmack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/