Hi! > >Yes. These things are almost always implemented _very_ > >badly by the same > >kind of crack-smoking hobo they drag in off the streets > >to write BIOSen. > > > >It's bog-roll technology; if you fancy a laugh try > >doing some real > >reliability tests on them time some. Powerfail testing > >is a good one. > > > >This kind of thing is OK for disposable storage such as > >in digital > >cameras, where it doesn't matter that it's no more > >reliable than a > >floppy disc, but for real long-term storage it's really > >a bad idea. > > > > There are so many flash-based storage and some > disposable storages, > as you pointed out, have poor quality. I think it's > mainly because these > are not designed for good quality, but for lowering the > price. > > These kind of devices are not ready for things like > power failure because > their use case is far from that. For example, removing > flash card > while taking pictures using digital camera is not a > common use case. > (there should be a written notice that this kind of > action is against > the warranty) Hmm.. so operating your camera on batteries should be against the warranty, since batteries commonly run empty while storing pictures? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
