On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:06:35AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > I have a question unrelated to the original question (and to Linux...): > How does this "wear leveling" work if a card is mostly full? E.g., my > typical situation is that I have a 512 MB card, but 450 MB of it is full > (with pictures I don't want to erase), and I constantly reuse the empty > space. Am I damaging my card, or does the card notice this and copies > around blocks even when I never touch them? Or should I just ignore this > whole issue, because even if I take pictures and remove them 1,000 times, > this is nothing compared to the 100,000 number you mentioned?
Directory and FAT blocks are updated far more often than you think. The cards are all FAT file systems. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
