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Subject: Re: you're not going to believe this.
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>> and lifetime.
>
> Even a flash filesystem will have to do wear levelling.

yes - but it don't have to copy blocks that are free. with disk emulation 
- it doesn't know anything about filesystem and don't know what blocks are 
free.