Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:13:01 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ultimate board! Message-ID: <200104200313.UAA24738@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:09:15 MDT." <200104192309.f3JN9F807969@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> wrote:
> : ... 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.
Oh, cool. I didn't know that.
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