[FE training-materials-updates] block filesystems: don't say that block devs don't wear out
Michael Opdenacker
michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com
Thu Oct 31 07:16:53 CET 2013
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Link : http://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials/commit/?id=9a2bed382826c3e1bc3d98483d6a29f1258c99cf
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commit 9a2bed382826c3e1bc3d98483d6a29f1258c99cf
Author: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>
Date: Thu Oct 31 04:54:12 2013 +0100
block filesystems: don't say that block devs don't wear out
- Not true with flash based block devices
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>
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9a2bed382826c3e1bc3d98483d6a29f1258c99cf
.../sysdev-block-filesystems.tex | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/slides/sysdev-block-filesystems/sysdev-block-filesystems.tex b/slides/sysdev-block-filesystems/sysdev-block-filesystems.tex
index 47a880a..19724ab 100644
--- a/slides/sysdev-block-filesystems/sysdev-block-filesystems.tex
+++ b/slides/sysdev-block-filesystems/sysdev-block-filesystems.tex
@@ -10,16 +10,15 @@
filesystems
\end{itemize}
\item {\bf Block devices} can be read and written to on a per-block
- basis, without erasing, and do not wear out when being used for a
- long time
+ basis, without erasing.
\begin{itemize}
\item Hard disks, floppy disks, RAM disks
- \item USB keys, Compact Flash, SD card, these are based on
+ \item USB keys, Compact Flash, SD card: these are based on
flash storage, but have an integrated controller that emulates a block
- device
+ device, managing and erasing flash sectors in a transparent way.
\end{itemize}
\item {\bf Flash devices} can be read, but writing requires erasing,
- and often occurs on a larger size than the âblockâ size
+ and often occurs on a larger size than the âblockâ size.
\begin{itemize}
\item NOR flash, NAND flash
\end{itemize}
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