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I was thinking why my IDE-flash disk died so soon[1] and how efficient
can an internal wear-levelling be in devices which hide its "flashiness"
(USB-sticks, IDE-flash disks etc.).
Internal wear-levelling mechanism doesn't have a clue about free space
on the filesystem - it that case, how can it do any efficient
wear-levelling?
[1] Well, it didn't die, really. Once I removed the file which was
showing I/O errors and did "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile", there are no
badblocks anymore - probably remapped.
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Tomasz Chmielewski
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