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Flash memory and partionning "optimization"

Flash memory and partionning "optimization"

Posted Feb 25, 2011 15:29 UTC (Fri) by meuh (subscriber, #22042)
Parent article: Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives

Is there any Flash devices using the "offset by one" trick used by some 4KBytes hard drives to get logically aligned on 255/63 partitions be physically on 4KBytes boundary, as reported on https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues#S-1._Yet_another_workaround_from_the_firmware_-_offset-by-one.


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