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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB by Dylan16807 on Saturday September 19, 2020 @03:35AM (#24525847)
Because of large erase blocks, it's unavoidable that a flash device needs to involve some kind of very careful bookkeeping and sector-shifting to safely handle power loss during writes. Otherwise it could lose a big chunk of sectors unrelated to what you were actually writing, and that's not something a filesystem can paper over. I barely trust a proper SSD controller to do this, let alone whatever cheap thing is in an SD card or flash drive.

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