From owner-freebsd-small Thu Apr 19 20:13:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com [192.6.9.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC72A37B423 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from msgrel1.and.agilent.com (msgrel1.and.agilent.com [130.30.33.104]) by msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE1341428; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:13:17 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.and.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2B12D; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:13:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id UAA24738; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104200313.UAA24738@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ultimate board! Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:09:15 MDT." <200104192309.f3JN9F807969@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:13:01 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > : ... but, you can't assume even wear. Don't directory entries, > : etc., get written in the same place, over and over? What about > : superblocks? > > The hardware does remapping behind the scenes so that wear is > averaged over the set of blocks that change. On a 16M part, there > would be about 5M free/changing in the average system, so teh > calcuations would hold for that. Oh, cool. I didn't know that. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message