Treatise on Formatting FLASH Storage Devices

[pgf at laptop.org]

david at lang.hm wrote:
 > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Mitch Bradley wrote:
 > 
 > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device
 > >
 > > Read it and weep.
 > 
 > this completely ignores wear leveling, which is very nessasary for just 
 > about any filesystem, but especially for FAT (which appear to be the only 
 > filesystems this author is familiar with)
 > 
 > all in all this doesn't seem like a very useful page.

since i'm 99% sure that mitch wrote that page, let me be the
first to disagree.  :-)

i believe that everything he's said is completely spot on.  i
confess i wasn't conscious of the partition vs. erase block
alignment issue until a couple of months ago when i first heard
mitch mention it, but i'm absolutely sure the effect is real.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org