FreeBSD's embedded agenda

[Jim Thompson]

On May 29, 2006, at 7:49 AM, marty fouts wrote:

> On 5/28/06, James Mansion <james at wgold.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> >Experience suggests that wear leveling does matter in this  
>> market, but
>> >that fairly simple wear leveling can be very effective.
>>
>> Can I ask why? I mmay be a  very bed person to talk about phones,
>> because I have a 6-year-old Seimens I chose for battery life and
>> the first thing I did was disable IrDa and WAP.  It doesn't have
>> a camera. ;-)  And I've never sent a text.
>>
>
> Two reasons: First, NAND devices have a complicated wear behavior. The
> more frequently you hit the same block, the lower the life expectancy
> of the block.

Uh... 'hit' is 'write', correct?

and I don't think its got anything to do with frequency, but hey,  
I've been wrong before, feel free to correct me.