[PATCH] UBI: introduce sequential counter
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind at infradead.org
Fri Feb 9 04:19:56 EST 2007
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.
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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
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