Wear-leveling peculiarities

Richard Weinberger richard.weinberger at gmail.com
Mon May 18 10:59:08 PDT 2015


On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Richard Weinberger
<richard.weinberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Johannes Bauer
> <weolanwaybqm at spornkuller.de> wrote:
>> Am 18.05.2015 15:53, schrieb Johannes Bauer:
>>
>>> I don't grasp the whole picture.
>>
>>
>> Obviously.
>>
>> I've been thinking about this some more and had an epiphany pretty much ten
>> seconds after I hit the "send" button on my email.
>>
>> Wear-leveling is working alright, but of course some parts (static operating
>> system components, for example) will never be written a lot of times,
>> because there is no need to change their contents. Wear-leveling is only
>> performed on the sectors which are actively written (and on those which are
>> unoccupied). This would explain the graphs, but is the explanation also
>> correct?
>
> Wear-leveling is done on UBI and UBIFS.

Should be read as *not* UBIFS.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard



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