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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: F2FS On USB Sticks?
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 21:00:48 -0000 (UTC)
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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.