Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: F2FS On USB Sticks? Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:17:25 +0100 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5sp2blx4b8.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <4HudnTMl7rXnjED6nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net yratBUjY/UPlh0qdesQSuwP1+An6KdTXtc6bvw2wWP6TjwQ4KX X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:nbDOzuYa3tLqLeXxS0VZzVqoulo= sha256:ZDLRqXqoKA5MNEVCUC804L7rQ3CKum3ZwPncplMgZIA= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:66527 On 2025-03-21 20:01, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > > Since there is no 1:1 correlation between the sector you think you are > writing to, and the actual physical RAM on even a thumbdrive, there is > nothing you can do at the operating system level other than caching your > writes and doing them in single big chunks in the hope that some of them > end up in the same erase page, and using the DISCARD function. I read somewhere, long ago, that sticks and memory cards were actually optimized for FAT, by having the pages under the start of the disk significantly smaller. Ie, optimized for having more writes in the FAT area. -- Cheers, Carlos.