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The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part II)

The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part II)

Posted Jul 8, 2006 10:28 UTC (Sat) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
Parent article: The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part II)

I was surprised by the mention of 'flash' for write-behind caching of
writes.

Certainly some form of non-volatile memory is a good idea, but I was
under the impression that writing to flash was quite slow.

Is flash a serious suggestion for caching writes or was it just
used as a simple term for non-volatile RAM??


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The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part II)

Posted Jul 9, 2006 0:01 UTC (Sun) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]

I was surprised by this too, specially because I wasn't aware there were flash memories without that limit on the number of writes on the same place.

I supose this limit is becoming bigger over time, but isn't still low for this kind of things?

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