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Re: Flash

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Flash
Date 2017-05-07 13:57 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2017May7.155729@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> |typical block sizes are e.g. 64KB for a 4MB NOR flash, 64KB for a
>> |256MB NAND flash, 128KB for a 512MB NAND flash
>
>OK, but I don't understand what the block size has to do with
>anything.  If a physical block is larger than 1k, BLOCK will still
>work just fine, so I'm left scratching my head about what the problem
>might be.

With a 64KB erase block size, writing one 1KB block means reading the
64KB into RAM, copying the 1KB, into the buffer, erasing the 64KB on
the flash device, and then writing the 64KB back.  That's not what I
consider "perfect".

>SSDs use NAND flash AFAIK, and work well with block-based file
>systems.  But somehow NAND flash won't work with BLOCK.

SSDs have extra hardware plus a lot of firmware smarts (called flash
translation layer) so that they behave acceptably in the usual case
for the usual file systems.  I.e., they put a lot of effort into
simulating a disk drive that was the inspiration for blocks.  You
don't want to put that kind of effort into the implementation of
blocks on an embedded controller with access to raw flash.  Instead,
the Forth way is to use an interface that is appropriate for flash.

- anton
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