Re: [Sheflug] Choice of Laptop

[John Cooper <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 20:11 +0000, John Southern wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2008 18:58:19 Richard Ibbotson wrote:

> Flash memory does have a theoretical limited Read/Write that would cause 
> problems with some file systems such as swap which can be overwritten many, 
> many times (some are now quoted up to one million writes, but most still 
> mention 10K+). To combat this we use other filesystems more suited to 
> handling long wear levelling. Since 2.4.10 we have had support for JFFS2.
> 

I think that Compact Flash and SD both have optimised allocation schemes
to reduce the rewriting that are done in the hardware so that you don't
really need to run JFFS2 but if the eeePC is using raw chips then JFFS2
will do the job.

john


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