On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 02:41:42AM +0200, Miernik wrote: > Isn't CF always wear-levelled internally, so it shouln't matter, and the > internal compact flash controller will take care not to write to the > same physical chip all the time? Cards do seem to have some differences in quality and quality of their wear levelling algorithms (some of which I believe are patented, but I'm not an expert in this area). > I wonder, because I had recently had two CF cards used as root sidk in a > CF-ICE adapter go bad, one with unrecoverable bad sectors (ext3 couldn't > be used on it, it was only 32 sectors = 16 kB, but still I couldn't use > the card at all, because these sectors where coming back over and over > again, like if the CF was remapping there somewhere else, and ext3 not > knowing about that jumed upon them again, and so on, very strange). Then > a second card got completely destroyed in just couple of months standard > desktop usage as root filesystem. I didn't use swap on any of the cards, > /home was also somewhere else, no really often changing data. Did you mount the filesystems with the noatime mount option? If not, then there was probably a huge amount of changes to the CF caused by the last access time getting updated. Regards, - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
