On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> The problem with flash is that you can change ones to zeroes one bit at a
> time, but changing them back is a big pain. Unless you use a custom
> designed filesystem especially for flash use, you need to buffer entire
> sectors of flash (64k each, and you usually need two) in memory. With 2MB
> of ram, that gets kind of tight...
Depends on the flash you use. AMD flash has small pages, Intel has huge
ones. I know cuz I've made products with both. And any RW file system
realistically usable on flash would have to tailored for flash, yes.
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