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Date:      Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:06:50 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/gstat gstat.c
Message-ID:  <86d4se6fyt.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <4780CC1B.8090708@freebsd.org> (Colin Percival's message of "Sun\, 06 Jan 2008 04\:39\:55 -0800")
References:  <200801061212.m06CCjON027649@repoman.freebsd.org> <4780CC1B.8090708@freebsd.org>

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Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> writes:
> I'm curious, why is this an issue with flash devices?  Given their famous
> ability to perform large numbers of transactions per second, I would have
> expected flash-based drives to be the least likely to have this problem.

three words: erase before write

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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