Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751142AbWCUROX (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:14:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751258AbWCUROX (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:14:23 -0500 Received: from webapps.arcom.com ([194.200.159.168]:14609 "EHLO webapps.arcom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751142AbWCUROW (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:14:22 -0500 Message-ID: <44203468.9060806@cantab.net> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:14:16 +0000 From: David Vrabel User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Richard Moser CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Lifetime of flash memory References: <44203179.3090606@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <44203179.3090606@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Mar 2006 17:14:20.0988 (UTC) FILETIME=[E4C6BFC0:01C64D0A] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 480 Lines: 13 John Richard Moser wrote: > > The question I have is, is this really significant? I have heard quoted > that flash memory typically handles something like 3x10^18 writes; That's like, uh, 13 orders of magnitudes out... David Vrabel - 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/