Re: [ts-7000] SD Card Wear Leveling

[Jason Stahls <>]

The SD card takes care of wear leveling itself, therefore you should 
_not_ run a flash filesystem on them like YAFFS ect, just use ext2/3 or 
such.

Jason

Loren M. Lang wrote:
> Do SD Cards do built-in wear leveling?  If they do, is it similar to a 
> journalling translation layer that is built-in to the card so that 
> everytime a sector is updated, it is internally written to a different 
> sector transparent to the OS?  Also, is there any protection against 
> reading bad data from a worn down sector similar to a hard drive 
> reporting READ ERROR when it reads a sector which fails a CRC check?


 
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