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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: F2FS On USB Sticks?
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:49:02 +0100
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On 2025-03-26 22:00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:17:25 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> 
>> I read somewhere, long ago, that sticks and memory cards were actually
>> optimized for FAT, by having the pages under the start of the disk
>> significantly smaller. Ie, optimized for having more writes in the FAT
>> area.
> 
> Not sure how that’s supposed to benefit the wear-levelling algorithm. The
> whole point of wear-levelling is that successive writes to the same
> logical sector do not necessarily end up in the same physical location.

Doesn't matter.

sticks and cards do not have wear levelling.

And if they did, smaller write chunks in the FAT area reduces the number 
of writes per chunk. They would have to consider two areas, though, 
because of the different write chunk size.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.