[Soekris] Soekris 5501 with SSD disks

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <C3E9AD52-DC1C-4CD2-A2F7-D82518D6A6F1 at cq.nu>, Bob Camp writes:
>Hi
>
>If half the disk is un-used, there's a *lot* of space to move the directory sectors off to as they wear ...

Yeah, well, only if the Flash-Adaptation-Layer *know* they are unused.

That is why you need to tell Flash drives when you delete files, that the
content sectors are now unused, otherwise the FAL will faithfully carry
their content around, wearing out your flash-cells doing so.


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