linuxoniphone.blogspot.com - 11/18/2008
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This is a post I wrote a long time ago, when this blog was first conceived. I decided to hold off on posting it, because I thought it'd be better to do some technical posts before waxing philosophically. I think it is still appropriate, so as we work on reverse engineering the NAND FTL, here's ...
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