[j-nsp] EX 8200 deployment

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:13:59AM -0700, Dan Farrell wrote:

> Flash gets a bad rap. I think most people have heard of supposed
> horror stories or they see the cycle limit and get wary.
> 
> But I'm wondering... has anyone in this list actually had a personal
> flash horror story? I don't have one of my own, and I'm swimming in
> network devices (some quite old) that use them.

I've seen dozens of old RE-2.0s with CFs that have died over time, but 
I'm 99% certain there was no effort made to do wear leveling or bad 
block detection and avoidance on those things. :) The ironiy is that 
they were really put in as "backup" because nobody trusted spinning 
media in a router, go figure.

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