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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:09:15 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The ultimate board! 
Message-ID:  <200104192309.f3JN9F807969@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:26:32 PDT." <200104192226.PAA21832@mina.soco.agilent.com> 
References:  <200104192226.PAA21832@mina.soco.agilent.com>  

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In message <200104192226.PAA21832@mina.soco.agilent.com> Darryl Okahata writes:
: > Based on 10e5 writes per block, 8k blocks and 5M of available space, 1
: > write per second is about 723 days, assuming even wear on each of the
: > available blocks (unless I've messed up my calculations).  That puts
: > it at two years.  one write per minute would be 120 years and one
: > write per hour would be 7200 years.
: 
:      ... but, you can't assume even wear.  Don't directory entries,
: etc., get written in the same place, over and over?  What about
: superblocks?

The hardware does remapping behind the scenes so that wear is
averaged over the set of blocks that change.  On a 16M part, there
would be about 5M free/changing in the average system, so teh
calcuations would hold for that.

Warner



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