Don't expect that flash card to last very long. Yuor typical flash
device has a longetivity of about 10K write cycles
Do you know what percentage of flash devices have such low lifetimes?
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactFlash lists
"Memory specifications generally allow 10,000 to 1,000,000 write cycles."
the Kingston www.kingston.com search for "flash endurance" returns several pdfs
listing 10k for MLC (not really what one would want for this) and 100k for SLC
an interesting read if your into this topic
http://www.bitmicro.com/press_resources_flash_ssd_db.php
talks about putting databases on flash memory though not the same thing, its
interesting.
after rethinking the wear leveling and bad sector remaping Ill guess that a fat
filesystem and a file based swap which is what I am doing might bring about more
reliability out of the CF card, though I still have no experience using linux
swap on a CF card.
interesting I knew about it, but never researched it before. learn something new
every day.
Richard Reynolds
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