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Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive)

From Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive)
Date 2012-07-22 02:07 +0000
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On 2012-07-22, Ignoramus22200 <ignoramus22200@NOSPAM.22200.invalid> wrote:
> I have a Nikon D80 camera. It uses Fat16 or some such filesystem on
> its SDHC drives. 
>
> I employ a photographer, whose job is to take 5-6 pictures at a time,
> connect the camera to the PC and download the pictures. He does that
> about 60 times per day.
>
> The problem is that, after every couple of months, the Flash drives
> crap out and need to be replaced. 
>
> I suspect that this is so, because certain Flash memory cells are
> repeatedly overwritten. These could be, for example, directory
> entries, inodes etc. 
>
> What I want is to come up with something that would prevent this from
> occurring. For example, perhaps, I should periodically rename the
> directory holding photos, so that the camera would create a new
> directory with new inodes. 
>
> Any suggestions for "poor man's wear leveling"?
>
>
> i

Last I had heard, flash-based devices like SD cards and such did
wear leveling internally so the external software doesn't have to
worry about it.  However, I'm not entirely certain that is true
of any/many/most/all devices.  Google might help you find more
complete/accurate information.

-- 
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Ignoramus22200 <ignoramus22200@NOSPAM.22200.invalid> - 2012-07-21 20:40 -0500
  Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2012-07-22 02:07 +0000
  Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2012-07-22 00:37 -0400
    Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Ignoramus2844 <ignoramus2844@NOSPAM.2844.invalid> - 2012-07-22 08:51 -0500
      Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-22 19:33 +0200
      Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-23 14:38 +0000
    Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-23 14:36 +0000
  Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Vic RR Garcia <VicGar007@at-gmail.dot.com> - 2012-07-22 06:35 -0400
    Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) MrTallyman <MrTallyman@BananaCountersRUs.org> - 2012-07-22 05:17 -0700
    Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Ignoramus2844 <ignoramus2844@NOSPAM.2844.invalid> - 2012-07-22 08:53 -0500
      Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-07-22 21:26 +0200
      Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Roy Strachan-12 <rdstrac@shaw.ca> - 2012-07-23 15:32 +0000
  Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) TheGlimmerMan <justaglimmer@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> - 2012-07-22 04:37 -0700
  Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) James Moe <jimoeDESPAM@sohnen-moe.com> - 2012-07-23 11:03 -0700
    Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2012-07-23 20:28 +0000
      Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-23 23:40 +0100
        Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Christoph Schmees <cjws@nurfuerspam.de> - 2012-07-24 13:01 +0200
          Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) MrTallyman <MrTallyman@BananaCountersRUs.org> - 2012-07-24 05:45 -0700
            Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-07-24 09:34 -0400
              Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 18:13 -0400
              Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) MrTallyman <MrTallyman@BananaCountersRUs.org> - 2012-07-24 17:55 -0700
                Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-25 07:40 +0100
                Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) MrTallyman <MrTallyman@BananaCountersRUs.org> - 2012-07-25 01:21 -0700
                Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-25 10:20 +0100
                Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) MrTallyman <MrTallyman@BananaCountersRUs.org> - 2012-07-25 05:05 -0700
                Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@wizardstower> - 2012-07-25 07:24 -0500
                Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-25 18:37 +0100
            Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-24 16:20 +0100
              Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Vic RR Garcia <VicGar007@at-gmail.dot.com> - 2012-07-24 20:45 -0400
                Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) MrTallyman <MrTallyman@BananaCountersRUs.org> - 2012-07-24 18:08 -0700
              Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) MrTallyman <MrTallyman@BananaCountersRUs.org> - 2012-07-24 18:00 -0700
                Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-25 07:43 +0100
                Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) MrTallyman <MrTallyman@BananaCountersRUs.org> - 2012-07-25 01:34 -0700
                Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2012-07-25 18:24 +0000
          Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2012-07-25 15:14 +0000
            Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-25 18:38 +0100
  Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2012-07-24 12:53 +0000
    Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-24 16:20 +0100
      Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2012-07-24 15:31 +0000
        Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-07-24 12:27 -0400
  Re: Wear leveling for the poor? (FAT filesystem on Flash drive) "dennis@home" <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> - 2012-07-31 09:47 +0100

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