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Re:Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A by walrus01 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:09PM (#17821707)
The Linux kernel in raspbian treats the SD card like a normal block device. I'm not aware of any special optimization for write wear leveling at the OS level, or on the board's sd card controller.
Re:Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A by fenwick67 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @06:07PM (#17822672)
SD card wear-levelling is usually supposed to be handled on the controller inside the SD card. SD cards aren't like having raw access to flash, you basically write over SPI and the controller in the SD card decides where to actually put it.

This talk about SD cards is really great and explains some of this:

https://youtu.be/r3GDPwIuRKI?t=197

Re:Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A by StavrosK on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @08:15PM (#17823435)
Fantastic talk, thanks for the link!