On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Todd Goodman wrote:
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> But the device is still doing wear leveling and bad block
> replacement so you're beholden to those algorithms and what you think
> you're allocating as sequential blocks of the flash are not necessarily so.
>
> Of course any decent wear le
* Rich Freeman [150224 10:19]:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Todd Goodman wrote:
> >
> > Can you explain why a log-based filesystem like f2fs would have any
> > impact on wear leveling?
> >
> > As I understand it, wear leveling (and bad block replacement) occurs on
> > the SSD itself (in the
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Todd Goodman wrote:
>
> Can you explain why a log-based filesystem like f2fs would have any
> impact on wear leveling?
>
> As I understand it, wear leveling (and bad block replacement) occurs on
> the SSD itself (in the Flash Translation Layer probably.)
>
Well, i
On Tuesday 24 February 2015 07:31:26 Rich Freeman wrote:
> In general though there is a reason that sysadmins tend to be very
> conservative with filesystems. I doubt most even jumped onto ext4 all
> that quickly even though that was very stable from the start of being
> declared as such. You re
* Rich Freeman [150224 07:32]:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Bob Wya wrote:
> > I would always recommend a secure erase of an SSD - if you want a "fresh
> > start". That will mark all the NAND cells as clear of data. That will
> > benefit the longevity of your device / wear levelling.
>
> N
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Bob Wya wrote:
> I would always recommend a secure erase of an SSD - if you want a "fresh
> start". That will mark all the NAND cells as clear of data. That will
> benefit the longevity of your device / wear levelling.
Not a bad idea, though if you're trimming you
I would always recommend a secure erase of an SSD - if you want a "fresh
start". That will mark all the NAND cells as clear of data. That will
benefit the longevity of your device / wear levelling.
I've been messing about with native exfat over the past few months. I found
this to be a pretty dece
Some list members might be interested in how I've got on with f2fs
(flash-friendly file system).
According to genlop I first installed f2fs on my Atom mini-server box on
1/11/14 (that's November, for the benefit of transpondians), but I'm
pretty sure it must have been several months before that
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