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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: MTDML <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: introduce sequential counter
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:19:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171012796.16135.2.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070209055014.GA21893@lazybastard.org>

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 05:50 +0000, Jörn Engel wrote:
> This is an unusual way of looking at time, but it is perfectly valid.
> Whether an LEB is 40 seconds or 40 million years old is completely
> inconsequential.  What matters is not how much wall-clock time has
> passed, but how much other data was written.  "Bytes of data written" is
> a valid unit of time, really, and a very useful one.  Esp. for wear
> leveling decisions.

Yes, and the sequential counter is basically how many eraseblock were
written to, which is close.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-09 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-08 20:02 [PATCH] UBI: introduce sequential counter Artem Bityutskiy
2007-02-08 22:16 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-09  5:50   ` Jörn Engel
2007-02-09  9:19     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2007-02-09  9:12   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-02-09 13:12     ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-09 14:40       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-02-09 14:50         ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-09 14:54           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-02-13 15:11         ` Frank Haverkamp
2007-02-13 15:40           ` Artem Bityutskiy

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