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To: Paul Allen <nospam@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda 
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Paul, you clearly understand the constraints of Flash, but it also
seems to me that you have never given any thought to how a filesystem
could benefit from knowing these and in doing so, help how to
mitigate the issues.

I wish I could be more specific to guide you and others onto the
right track here, but for now I will have to reiterate:  Tailor
the filesystem to flash devices, there are so many benefits to
be had that way.

-- 
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.