On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 09:29 -0700, ext Mark wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I would recommend you to do some reading about jffs2, ubifs and wear > > levelling in general. > > > > Then you'll understand better what people are trying to tell you. > > -- > > > > Cheers, Igor > > > > The problem is that I *do* understand wear levelling. Just as some > people think that simply having anti-virus software is a 100% > guarantee that they can never get a virus, you seem to think that wear > levelling is 100% protection against all possibility of flash failure. > That is *obviously* not the case. There are all kinds of problems that > can occur that are not related to repeated write operations. Even the > most sophisticated error-correction can't protect you from a defect in > the error correction itself. Memory of *any* kind is far more complex > than just bits on a chip. > > How do you explain the fact that flash memory *does* fail? There have > been posts on this very list about such failures. I can only repeat my advice: why don't you do some reading at least about jffs2? -- Cheers, Igor --- Igor Stoppa Maemo Software - Nokia Devices R&D - Helsinki _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
