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Old 25th July 2008
Darwimy Darwimy is offline
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Originally Posted by JMJ_coder View Post
what is SLC and MLC and why is one better than the other? Also, how do I tell which one a particular card employs?

What do these two do ('noatime' and circular log files)?
Phoenix described the differences between SLC and MLC well. Only a few manufactures provide information which type the use. Transcend usally prints it on their packaging, but not always in the datasheet.

Circular log files are a patch (http://software.wwwi.com/syslogd/) for standard syslogd by which it supports log files which have a fixed size and 'turn over' (start from the beginning) if the end is reached. I find this very useful for use placing logfiles on small ram-disk. The drawback is that these files can only be viewed by a special program ('clog') which understands the file format.
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