RE: [iPAQ] ext2 on flash question

It's not optimal, but I don't think you have to worry too much. The driver
will do one erase for a group of consective writes to an individual sector.
It holds the sector in memory until a write comes along for another sector.
It's the erases that need to be counted, not the writes.

-Jamey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: emddjf@chron.com [mailto:emddjf@chron.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 7:17 PM
> To: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Cc: emddjf@chron.com
> Subject: [iPAQ] ext2 on flash question
>
>
>
> hi,
>
> I'm wondering if I just did something really stupid.
>
> I just started FTPing a 3.7MB file to the ext2 /usr/local partition
> on my ipaq.
>
> I then realized that depending on how ext2 and FTP work, it
> may have been
> overwriting the same sector over and over again, greatly reducing the
> life of my flash RAM.
>
> Is that indeed the case? Or am I worrying over nothing?
>
> Dwayne
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Received on Sat Sep 23 06:47:48 2000