Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 14:11:46 -1000 From: Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com> To: "marty fouts" <mf.danger@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, small@freebsd.org, Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortel.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda Message-ID: <EC7AB829-4349-45E5-8435-F175F9CF3BA2@netgate.com> In-Reply-To: <9f7850090605291049j2d6c6e41wff1330e114fa91a7@mail.gmail.com> References: <9f7850090605271000j524d6a35gfa3f6df1f0ed59f5@mail.gmail.com> <HCEPKPMCAJLDGJIBCLGHEEILFGAA.james@wgold.demon.co.uk> <9f7850090605291049j2d6c6e41wff1330e114fa91a7@mail.gmail.com>
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On May 29, 2006, at 7:49 AM, marty fouts wrote: > On 5/28/06, James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >Experience suggests that wear leveling does matter in this >> market, but >> >that fairly simple wear leveling can be very effective. >> >> Can I ask why? I mmay be a very bed person to talk about phones, >> because I have a 6-year-old Seimens I chose for battery life and >> the first thing I did was disable IrDa and WAP. It doesn't have >> a camera. ;-) And I've never sent a text. >> > > Two reasons: First, NAND devices have a complicated wear behavior. The > more frequently you hit the same block, the lower the life expectancy > of the block. Uh... 'hit' is 'write', correct? and I don't think its got anything to do with frequency, but hey, I've been wrong before, feel free to correct me.
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