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Date:      Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:42:10 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Effect of partitioning on wear-leveling
Message-ID:  <1458661330.1091.11.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160322062635.GD64087@server.rulingia.com>
References:  <20160321175952.GA83908@www.zefox.net> <1458586884.68920.96.camel@freebsd.org> <20160321221153.GB83908@www.zefox.net> <1458600070.68920.107.camel@freebsd.org> <20160322032832.GC83908@www.zefox.net> <E985EBE6-E062-4C5E-8F85-ECB7BDE98DE8@bsdimp.com> <20160322062635.GD64087@server.rulingia.com>

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On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 17:26 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2016-Mar-21 21:47:39 -0600, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > So let¢s do the math. 512MB cards tended to have write speeds of
> > maybe 6MB/s.
> > At 6MB/s, that¢s about 518MB/day, or one drive write per day. Most
> > SD cards,
> 
> I think you dropped some zeroes there.  6MB/s == 518,400MB/day ==
> 518GB/day.
> That's 1000 drive writes/day - which is non-trivial.
> 

Because the hardware I was using was old and buggy (byte-swapping all
data in software, etc), the actual IO rate was just under 1MB/sec, but
that's still closer to the kind of numbers you mention than to
Warner's.

-- Ian



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