Compact Flash sector load-balacing?

[Stephen Ryan]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:36 -0500, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> Well, CF shows up as Just Another IDE Drive (provided it's connected
> with an IDE adapter... not sure what drivers are used when it's on a
> USB adapter etc., but I thik even then it doesn't get a special
> driver.
> 
> No wear leveling is done in the card itself that I'm aware of,
> either...there may be a block buffer or similar in the controller, but
> that's minimal.
> 
> Mount it noatime at the very least, sync would also make sense.... and
> ext2, NOT ext3 (though I suppose you could use an external journal,
> but what would be the point?)
> 
> I've seen Linux tools for doing wear-leveling on flash over in
> PDA-land, but haven't seen any of those drivers in use on the PC
> side... and I boot my home system from a 512MB CF.
> 
> --DTVZ

I think you just have to format as JFFS2.  I haven't actually used this
myself since my Zaurus died, so all the information I have comes from
Google.  

http://sourceware.org/jffs2/jffs2-html/