On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:18:02 +1000, Bob Larter
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Meat Plow wrote:

Well one of the most common (non physical abuse) problem is corruption
of the file system since there is a unique read/write algorithm used
to spread the usage of the file system over the entire flash memory.

"Write-leveling"

I've always seen it called "wear leveling".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling

- Franc Zabkar
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