On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Dmitri Nikulin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Martin K. Petersen > <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> "Dmitri" == Dmitri Nikulin <[email protected]> writes: >> >> Dmitri> Already SanDisk are offering a proprietary "Extreme FFS" >> Dmitri> (perhaps even based on Unix FFS) for Windows Vista only. >> >> Extreme FFS is SanDisk's next generation FTL/firmware. It's not a >> filesystem that plugs into the OS. > > If that's the case, why is it marketed for Windows Vista only, and > referring to filesystem features like marking unused blocks? Surely if > it was at the device level it would be OS-neutral, and marketed as > such. >
It's marketed for Windows 7 and Windows 7 has feature that send down trim/discard info to the storage. Anyway, Linux support for trim is under way [1]. -- Dongjun [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/willy/ssd.git;a=shortlog;h=trim-20090212 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
