Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:53:35 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, col-pepper@piments.com,
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Subject: Re: o_sync in vfat driver
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>I really don't think one needs to worry about this! The flash-file-
>system designers know how to minimize wear and spread the wear
>throughout the device. It's not up to the file-systems to be
>concerned whatsoever!

Yes, the filesystem designers, JFFS and such. But most people unfortunately 
have to use something not-optimized-for-flash called VFAT to be able to 
read it on Win32 too. I would like to use UDF instead, but Windows seems to 
have a nogo with UDF on non-CDROMs.


Jan Engelhardt
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