HDD

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <5C66F3C40FAC63FB21A0C626 at cc-126-240.int.t-online.fr>, Mathieu Arnol
d writes:

>but, taking into account that your flash is half filled with real non really
>changing data, and you have a swap partition, the flash adaptation layer will
>have the swap space slide on the available space, and it'll wrap up, after
>many times, it'll eventually have the free space unwritable (unless the flash
>adaptation layer is smart enough to move non changing data to cell which
>won't have many more write cycles left and continue to write to almost non
>used cells).

It is.

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