Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:28:32 -0700 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Subject: Re: Effect of partitioning on wear-leveling Message-ID: <20160322032832.GC83908@www.zefox.net> In-Reply-To: <1458600070.68920.107.camel@freebsd.org> References: <20160321175952.GA83908@www.zefox.net> <1458586884.68920.96.camel@freebsd.org> <20160321221153.GB83908@www.zefox.net> <1458600070.68920.107.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 04:41:10PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > Also, it's been my experience that it's impossible to "wear out" an > sdcard. I once ran a program that just wrote random data continuously > at full speed to a 512MB card for several months nonstop. No noticible > effect on the card. I actually still use that card today (in one of > our older products whose filesystem image only needs about 40MB). > > Have you ever checked to see how much of the 512 MB capacity remains? Seems that quite a lot of decay wouldn't show up if you're using less than 10% of the device's capacity. Thank you! bob prohaska
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