Re: gnome-format 0.1 - UI suggestions wanted!

["Abel Cheung" <abelcheung gmail com>]

On 2/11/07, Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk> wrote:
> Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> writes:
> > ext3, or any journaled filesystem for that matter, on a flash memory
> > device is a no-no, as the journal would disrupt the write queue that the
> > devices use to optimise the flash usage.
>
> That's interesting. Do you have a link with a further explanation?
>
> I would have thought that flash memory and journaled file systems were
> a natural fit since you don't have the seek overhead that are present
> with disk-based memory.

Perhaps it is necessary to distinguish compact flash and flash memory[1]?

Abel

[1] http://lldn.timesys.com/docs/flash_overview


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