[haiku-development] Re: AMD Geode nano-size motherboard


Am 15.04.2008 um 22:31 schrieb Bruno Albuquerque:

Ryan Leavengood wrote:
We also need a Flash aware file system unless we want to kill its Flash HD 
in a matter of weeks. :)

Hmmm, is the nature of BFS such that it would not work well on Flash
hard drives? Or could there be a "Flash-mode" added without having to
hack too much code?
I guess that if we changed the allocation policy it could work, but I am not sure this would be enough. 


Also I think the modern Flash drives are much more tolerant of
frequent writes than they used to be.


Exactly. That's why it would last a couple of weeks. :)
As far as I understood from our computer engineering department, this is all about the limited number of Flash write cycles. So even if the number of writes is reduced a little bit by some optimizing file system implementation, it's still not the brightest of all ideas, lifetime-wise. 

Andreas

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