Plug Computers for whole-home audio

Joshua Judson Rosen rozzin at geekspace.com
Sun Apr 24 20:56:52 EDT 2011


Lloyd Kvam <python at venix.com> writes:
>
> On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 17:12 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> > if you do the math, you'll be surprised--
> > most of what people `know' about flash memory, which is based on
> > what was true with the state of the art 20 years ago, is basically
> > superstition at this point. 
> 
> Everything I know about flash memory comes from this LWN article:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/428584/
> 
> Among other things, the article warns that the wear leveling algorithm
> is likely to be closely tied to the original device format.  I don't
> think this contradicts anything Joshua wrote.  If you want more detail,
> follow the link.
> 
> (I had been routinely reformatting to ext3 thinking it did not
> matter...)

Do you mean the part about block-sizes?

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