Tixy (12022-12-26):
> He didn't mention filesystems.
> 
> The controller in the card would surely know what flash blocks contain
> data, so writing the whole card first would reserve those blocks as
> 'in-use' leaving just a relatively small amount of spare blocks which
> would be available for erasure and reuse the that repeated write.

Unless the card is brand new, “what flash blocks contain data” is “all
of them”. The information whether a block is used or not used resides in
the filesystem data structures.

-- 
  Nicolas George

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