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Ext4 filesystem hits Android, no need to fear data loss (ars technica)

Ext4 filesystem hits Android, no need to fear data loss (ars technica)

Posted Dec 28, 2010 12:39 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Ext4 filesystem hits Android, no need to fear data loss (ars technica) by timokokk
Parent article: Ext4 filesystem hits Android, no need to fear data loss (ars technica)

Correct me if I am wrong, but It seems like most phones now with large amounts of on board storage use a SD-like device soldered to the mainboard.

So they often don't offer access to raw flash even if you wanted to use MTD directly.


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Ext4 filesystem hits Android, no need to fear data loss (ars technica)

Posted Dec 28, 2010 17:36 UTC (Tue) by mikov (subscriber, #33179) [Link]

May be so - it is probably much easier for the manufacturer. The question is how it affects reliability.

I doubt that the builtin SD controllers can perform very sophisticated wear leveling. It is an extremely difficult problem.

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