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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/gstat gstat.c 
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In message <86d4se6fyt.fsf@ds4.des.no>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wr
ites:
>Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> writes:
>> I'm curious, why is this an issue with flash devices?  Given their famous
>> ability to perform large numbers of transactions per second, I would have
>> expected flash-based drives to be the least likely to have this problem.
>
>three words: erase before write

That's not all of it, but it would most likely help, yes.

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