El Sun, 30-08-2009 a las 09:20 -0700, H. Peter Anvin escribió: > On 08/30/2009 04:41 AM, Luke Faraone wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:25, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk > > <mailto:d...@jones.dk>> wrote: > > > > makebootfat not only formats with disk geometry that *is* right, but > > also use a handcrafted MBR which has a higher chance of *looking* > > right by various BIOSes - both when looking for USB-FDD, USB-ZIP and > > USB-HDD. > > > > Now, by *right*, do we mean not only that but also something that meets > > the criteria of > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#How_to_win > > (without > > the problems caused by > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#Screwed-up_formatting)? > > > > > > I'm not too familiar with how USB flash works, so I don't know if > > USB-{FDD, ZIP, HDD} layouts are compatible with the layout you'd want to > > minimize wear. > > > > Wear leveling needs to be done in a separate layer if you're doing to > use a conventional filesystem.
I didn't know it was even possible to peel the built-in FTL of USB sticks and use them as bare NAND devices suitable for MTD or UBI. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel