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How about F2FS support ?

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zaphee:
Hi everyone !

First of all, Yes, I've read http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/NoDo. BUT, said filesystem actually has a real point. It is supposed to increase the lifetime of our valuable rockboxed flash players, which is IMO a good reason to implement at least some basic read/write support. I actually think it's worth the effort.
Not a developer here, but I already successfully use F2FS on several flash devices. No problem until now, so I plan to adopt it for everything flash. Don't you ? :)

saratoga:
The flash in your mp3 player will not fail from you writing to it. There is no point in worrying about it.

zaphee:
saratoga,
Thanks for your reply, but...
This week I noticed flash access errors, file reads taking longer than usual, and even the OF has become slow, buggy and unstable. Chances are, the internal flash of my clip+ is worn out and is slowly dying.
Implementing the flash-friendly filesystem does have a point. Just my opinion regarding the above.

I was expecting a better (i.e. normal) end for my player, like battery not taking charge any more or dead pixels. But flash died first, which is a shame and can be avoided.

Lorenzo92:
Clip+ should have a emmc, if I'm not mistaken. This means that by default should have an internal algorithm to avoid these problems.
Of course a filesystem that is meant for NANDs would be helpful, but actually I don't see this as a priority for rockbox. Moreover you would have problems both with OF and USB mass storage connections. Let's add the difficult work behind all of this: not worth it probably.

This is not intended to sound like "nono this is crazy, don't do that", I'm just trying to figure out pros and cons ;)

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