[syslinux] reliable use of storage devices with FTL (was: Re: [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine)

[Sascha Silbe]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:11:50AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

> No writeable file system is going to work, long term, on any of these
> "fake disk" things. If you want to use flash for a _reliable_ 
> writeable
> file system, your only option right now is to use a flash file system 
> of
> some kind _directly_ on it.
So effectively you're saying USB sticks, SD cards and probably most SSDs 
can't be used reliably in normal operation (i.e. for writing) because 
they don't provide raw NAND access?

CU Sascha

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