Thread: What Applications would you like to see on Sailfish Devices?
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ggabriel is offline ggabriel
2013-12-03 , 21:47
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RE: why btrfs is better for emmc/flash, deleted post: For what reason?
Apparently because it has "Block discard support", which among other things improves wear leveling on SSDs/flash/etc.. It does have SSD mode as well which does a few things to level wear. Apparently everything is about leveling wear.

Like I said before, it's weird that they chose it. My kernel is 3.10+, and look at what it says:
Btrfs is highly experimental, and THE DISK FORMAT IS NOT YET 
FINALIZED. You should say N here unless you are interested in 
testing Btrfs with non-critical data.
I mean.. it isn't so much of a problem if the format isn't finalised (assuming they are versioning it ;-) ), as migrating to btrfs is pretty straightforward. Still, I didn't have the courage to test it myself, but loads of people out there are using it.

I guess I'll start testing it with my Jolla [when it arrives]!
 

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