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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 17:38 UTC (Tue) by mikov (subscriber, #33179)
In reply to: Ext4 filesystem hits Android, no need to fear data loss (ars technica) by Cyberax
Parent article: Ext4 filesystem hits Android, no need to fear data loss (ars technica)

Which tasks? It is presented as ATA interface, so AFAIK it can't offload anything.


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

Posted Dec 29, 2010 0:18 UTC (Wed) by swetland (subscriber, #63414) [Link]

Well, looks like an SD/MMC device in the case of most devices we're working with, but yeah, no magical offload of the work to the host CPU. Looks like a block device. Behaves (mostly) like a block device. Probably supports TRIM. Etc.

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