Flash file systems are tricky. You have to worry about load-leveling. It
wouldn't do to continually write, for example, the FAT and have it wear out
before the rest of the space.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(high function, high performance, low level software)

----- Original Message -----
From: Damon Hopkins <mdhopkin@UNITY.NCSU.EDU>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 4:14 AM
Subject: [EE] Flash and EEPROM based file systems


> anyone have any code dealing with implementing a file system on either
> FLASH memory or any other type of memory.. I'd like to get a 1 MB flash
> chip and put a small filesystem on it but rather than try to design the
> thing myself I'd like to sample what's out there.. I haven't turned up
> much. I plan on using the Atmel SPI Flash memory chips and figure that
> with a 16 bit pointer I could have access to 4 MB I want to make a tiny
> file server :)
>
>                         Thanks,
>
>                                         Damon Hopkins