On 2/11/07, Ole Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Emmanuele Bassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ext3, or any journaled filesystem for that matter, on a flash memory > > device is a no-no, as the journal would disrupt the write queue that the > > devices use to optimise the flash usage. > > That's interesting. Do you have a link with a further explanation? > > I would have thought that flash memory and journaled file systems were > a natural fit since you don't have the seek overhead that are present > with disk-based memory.
Perhaps it is necessary to distinguish compact flash and flash memory[1]? Abel [1] http://lldn.timesys.com/docs/flash_overview > > -- > Ole Laursen > http://people.iola.dk/olau/ > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list > -- Abel Cheung (GPG Key: 0xC67186FF) Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF -------------------------------------------------------------------- * GNOME Hong Kong - http://www.gnome.hk/ * Opensource Application Knowledge Assoc. - http://oaka.org/ * My own cave: http://me.abelcheung.org/ _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
