Re: jff2 filesystem in vanilla

[Jörn Engel]

On Sun, 13 June 2004 10:39:05 +0200, Daniel Egger wrote:
> On 08.06.2004, at 11:31, P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> >Can you give more detail on how you were able to "kill a card".
> 
> Write to it every now and then using a touchy filesystem
> like ext2 and it will certainly break.
> 
> As soon as a CF card starts developing bad blocks you better
> (trash-)can them because they're losing reliability very
> quickly.

In other words, there is absolutely no wear-levelling in either the
driver or the card itself.  Good to know.

Jörn

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