Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

[shimi]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:35 AM, geoffrey mendelson <
geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 10/10/2013 8:50 AM, Ira Abramov wrote:
>
>> I also thought splitting the card into two 32G partitions could save me
>> from loosing more than one partition at once, if anything bad happens.
>>
>
> Unless it is a software error, it is unlikely that if one partition goes
> on the card, the other will survive. Remember that memory cards are not
> like disk drives. Data is not stored sequentially, but randomly and the
> hardware keeps track of the location of it. This is so that sectors that
> are often written such as the FAT (or the equivalent in that particular
> file system) do not die quickly from being written to too often.
>
>
>
Unless the part of the media that got broke happens to be on your current
location of the File Allocation Table...  if memory serves me right,
there's no "multiple copies of the superblock"-ext-equivalent in FAT...

Flashback from the past: Problems in sector 0 on floppies :)

-- Shimi
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