[SPAM] FAT on NAND

[Charles Manning]

Jim

As you see from David and Thomas, there is wide  agreement that FAT on NAND 
is not a good idea if you want reliable storage.

Some associates of mine using WinCE tried three different commercial 
FAT-on-NAND solutions before they gave up and moved to YAFFS for data 
integrity and speed reasons.

The easiest way to get FAT-on-NAND is to use SmartMedia. This is used by MP3 
players, cameras etc. It works OK, has wear levelling (of a sort - not 
explicit wear levelling). As Thomas says, this is not pure FAT but is very 
close and it looks like FAT from the operating system.  I would not trust it 
for any data I cared about or if I needed a fast file system.

I have had a look at what is required to get YAFFS working on Windows (98, 
2000, XP). I think this would be far easier, and give far better results, 
than trying to make FAT robust.

-- CHarles