Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:04:24 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc> Cc: Alexandre DELAY <alexandre.delay@free.fr>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDD Message-ID: <24265.1134821064@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:25:49 %2B0100." <5C66F3C40FAC63FB21A0C626@cc-126-240.int.t-online.fr>
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In message <5C66F3C40FAC63FB21A0C626@cc-126-240.int.t-online.fr>, Mathieu Arnol d writes: >but, taking into account that your flash is half filled with real non really >changing data, and you have a swap partition, the flash adaptation layer will >have the swap space slide on the available space, and it'll wrap up, after >many times, it'll eventually have the free space unwritable (unless the flash >adaptation layer is smart enough to move non changing data to cell which >won't have many more write cycles left and continue to write to almost non >used cells). It is. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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