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Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:34:47 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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> Many (most?) flash devices do "wear-levelling": blocks which are being
> frequently rewritten will be periodically remapped by the firmware or
> driver so that erase activity is spread evenly across all blocks.  So
> it is the average number of writes per block which determines the
> device life expectancy, not the peak number.

Well, now that's clever.  Of course, it is obvious, too.  But can one
rely on this?  Is there some way of detecting when things start going
wrong?  What would the symptoms be?

++L