What is Digg?23 Comments
- LiamIsOnFire, on 07/26/2008, -0/+28Technology, on Digg?
What on earth is going on. - MadEnvoy, on 07/26/2008, -0/+15Must be a slow 4chan day.
- chicken101, on 07/26/2008, -0/+11This is the most technical article I've seen make it to the front page in like 2 years. Dugg.
- dignation, on 07/26/2008, -0/+10so, I'm killing my eee by using ext3?
- inactive, on 07/26/2008, -0/+9Linux®?
Maybe I'm an idiot, but... wouldn't it be Linux™? - Culyt, on 07/26/2008, -0/+9Its unlikely to break before you upgrade:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ssd_write_limit
☢ - EmperorPsiblade, on 07/26/2008, -0/+6You are right, it's trademarked to Torvalds.
- Slade605, on 07/26/2008, -1/+7I am Jack's flashing file system.
- Samurailink3, on 07/26/2008, -0/+5We need more ***** like this on Digg.
- Culyt, on 07/26/2008, -1/+6These file systems aren't really to useful for modern flash drives such as those in the eeepc.
Most flash memory would have to be written continuously for years before there becomes a problem. The real life expectancy its probably something like 25 years. If your still using the system by then its probably time to upgrade anyway. Plus you could probably get a few TBs in a cheap SD card. Although with developments in technology you will probably be able to pickup a new system much more powerful for pocket change (Cheapest netbook is like $130 already although its not very powerful).
Even then if there is a problem I think most systems will just map around the error, I know current magnetic storage drives do this automatically already and most filesystems will too with stuff like badblock checking. I also understand that many randomise the blocks on write too but I'm not so sure.
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ssd_write_limit
☢ - inactive, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3Exactly right. The mtbf on conventional hard drives is comparable, if not a little worse than modern ssd drives and flash devices. I don't think anyone should lose any sleep over this. Just do back ups, people! ANY drive can fail, will fail, it's just a matter of when they fail.
- horsepie, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3The trademark is registered to Linus, AFAIK.
- inactive, on 07/26/2008, -1/+4Probably not...
It's still going to last a while, i'd think... - SSUK, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2Linux® running GIMP® photo enhancement software
- neko, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2Bear in mind that JFFS2 and YAFFS are designed for embedded flash memory - not SSDs or CompactFlash cards, as they do their own wear-levelling internally.
- ZippyV, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2That's a good example for an eee laptop but when a flash drive is used in a file server you get a totally different story.
- terog, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1There is also LogFS:
"LogFS is a scalable flash filesystem. It is aimed to replace JFFS2 for most uses, but focuses more on large devices. JFFS2 works well enough on small devices, it just gets slow and uses up too much memory on larger ones."
http://logfs.org/ - lemur, on 07/26/2008, -1/+1PS I really want to know
- mrmacky, on 07/26/2008, -1/+1DDoS ftw... :p
4chan has fallen afaik.... - cHoBi, on 07/26/2008, -0/+0Exactly, 4chan is dead.
- katana2k, on 07/26/2008, -1/+1"You've probably heard of Journaling Flash File System (JFFS) and Yet Another Flash File System (YAFFS)"
lol - SSUK, on 07/26/2008, -3/+2But is it jumping?
- lemur, on 07/26/2008, -5/+1I want to know the anatomy of BSD flash file systems. I know that NetBSD has LFS, but is that really all there is?
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