On Apr 10, 2007, at 12:35 AM, Herbert Graf wrote:

> I know with Linux there is a "flash" file system that's optimized to
> deal with this issue, purposely spreading writes over the whole  
> disk to
> lessen this problem.
>
> That said, a system doesn't really write to the disk that much, except
> for the swap file I suppose.

Right, one can use JFFS/JFFS2 filesystem for that, but you can only  
do so if you have direct access to the chips (that is, MTD device in  
linux). This won't work if your flash chips are accessible as a USB  
device or via IDE/SCSI, since in this case the physical device is  
hidden from you and it is up to the device controller to decide where  
to put what data in the chip.

cheers,
Andrei
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