Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda

From: Paul Allen <nospam_at_ugcs.caltech.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:46:18 -0700
>From Olivier Gautherot <olivier_at_gautherot.net>, Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:09:58PM +0200:
> Don't forget that Flash doesn't suffer from mechanical delays so there
> is no harm in fragmenting the filesystem: this would be another feature.
This statement is false + you give the reason why only a few steps earlier:

> (what FFS doesn't naturally do). Also, there is a constraint regarding
> the changes allowed: on NAND flash, you can write a 0 on a bit but have
> to erase the full block to write a 1 back.
Erase cycles are often 1ms in duration.

                       Paul
Received on Thu May 25 2006 - 16:46:19 UTC

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