Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-25 Thread Mikael
For having a *guaranteedly intact* storage, what is the way then? This is with the background of recent discussions that touched on https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/bairavasundaram/bairavasundaram_html/index.html and

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-25 Thread Karel Gardas
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Mikael mikael.tr...@gmail.com wrote: For having a *guaranteedly intact* storage, what is the way then? This is with the background of recent discussions that touched on

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-20 Thread frantisek holop
Chris Cappuccio, 19 Jun 2015 09:59: The problem identified in this article is _NOT_ TRIM support. It's QUEUED TRIM support. It's an exotic firmware feature that is BROKEN. Suffice to say, if Windows doesn't exercise an exotic feature in PC hardware, it may not be well tested by anybody! the

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-19 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Mikael [mikael.tr...@gmail.com] wrote: 2015-06-18 2:07 GMT+05:30 Gareth Nelson gar...@garethnelson.com: On point 3, hybrid SSD drives usually just present a standard IDE interface - just use a SATA controller and you don't need to worry about it No I meant, you plug in a 2TB SSD and a

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-19 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Karel Gardas [gard...@gmail.com] wrote: Honestly with ~20% provision, once your SSD starts to shrink down, it's already good enough to be put into dustbin. The recent SSD endurance reviews on the review sites seem to show that it takes a long, long, long time before the modern SSD indicates

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-19 Thread andrew fabbro
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: been meaningless for some time). When the disk runs out of places to write the good data, it throws a permanent write error back to the OS and you have a really bad day. The only difference in this with SSDs is

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/19/15 13:38, andrew fabbro wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: been meaningless for some time). When the disk runs out of places to write the good data, it throws a permanent write error back to the OS and you have a really bad day.

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-18 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2015-06-18, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: The SSD has some number of spare storage blocks. When it finds a bad block, it locks out the bad block and swaps in a good block. Curiously -- this is EXACTLY how modern spinning rust hard disks have worked for about ... 20

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-18 Thread Karel Gardas
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote: They also tend to forget that magnetic disks also corrupt data, or never write it, or write it to the wrong place on disk. Time to remind people of this great paper: An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-18 Thread David Dahlberg
Am Donnerstag, den 18.06.2015, 02:15 +0530 schrieb Mikael: 2015-06-18 2:07 GMT+05:30 Gareth Nelson gar...@garethnelson.com: No I meant, you plug in a 2TB SSD and a 2TB magnet HD, is there any way to make them properly mirror each other [so the SSD performance is delivered while the magnet

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-18 Thread Karel Gardas
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:08 AM, David Dahlberg david.dahlb...@fkie.fraunhofer.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 18.06.2015, 02:15 +0530 schrieb Mikael: 2015-06-18 2:07 GMT+05:30 Gareth Nelson gar...@garethnelson.com: No I meant, you plug in a 2TB SSD and a 2TB magnet HD, is there any way to make

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-17 Thread Mariano Ignacio Baragiola
On 17/06/15 08:05, frantisek holop wrote: https://blog.algolia.com/when-solid-state-drives-are-not-that-solid/ also note the part relating to ext4: I have to admit, I slept better before reading the changelog. fast, features, realiable: pick any 2. -f I don't think TRIM is to blame here.

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-17 Thread Theo de Raadt
1) From the article, what can we see that Ext4/Linux actually did wrong here? - Is it that the TRUNCATE command should be abandoned completely, or was it how it matched supported/unsupported drives, or something else? Mariano was being a jerk by assuming it is a bug in ext4 or other code.

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-17 Thread Mikael
Wait, just for my (and I guesss some others') clarity, three questions here: 1) From the article, what can we see that Ext4/Linux actually did wrong here? - Is it that the TRUNCATE command should be abandoned completely, or was it how it matched supported/unsupported drives, or something else?

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-17 Thread Mikael
2015-06-18 2:07 GMT+05:30 Gareth Nelson gar...@garethnelson.com: On point 3, hybrid SSD drives usually just present a standard IDE interface - just use a SATA controller and you don't need to worry about it No I meant, you plug in a 2TB SSD and a 2TB magnet HD, is there any way to make them

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-17 Thread Karel Gardas
Honestly with ~20% provision, once your SSD starts to shrink down, it's already good enough to be put into dustbin. Another question is of this buggy TRIM, but I'm afraid this may be hard fight even with replication and checksumming filesystems (ZFS/HAMMER/BTRFS). Cheers, Karel On Wed, Jun 17,

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-17 Thread Gareth Nelson
If I wanted a setup like that i'd just use RAID, note the obvious - write performance will be the same (or possibly slightly slower due to the added RAID layer) --- “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-17 Thread Mikael
2015-06-18 0:53 GMT+05:30 Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org: 2) General on SSD: When an SSD starts to shrink because it starts to wear out, how is this handled and how does this appear to the OS, logs, and system software? Invisible. Even when a few drives make it visible in some

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/17/15 16:30, Mikael wrote: 2015-06-18 0:53 GMT+05:30 Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org: 2) General on SSD: When an SSD starts to shrink because it starts to wear out, how is this handled and how does this appear to the OS, logs, and system software? Invisible. Even when a few

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-17 Thread Gareth Nelson
On point 3, hybrid SSD drives usually just present a standard IDE interface - just use a SATA controller and you don't need to worry about it --- “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” -

Re: when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-17 Thread Gareth Nelson
Paranoia over SSDs messing up is why I got hybrid drives - still get a decent performance boost but all my data is on good old fashioned magnetic platters --- “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth

when SSDs are not so solid or why no TRIM support can be a good thing :)

2015-06-17 Thread frantisek holop
https://blog.algolia.com/when-solid-state-drives-are-not-that-solid/ also note the part relating to ext4: I have to admit, I slept better before reading the changelog. fast, features, realiable: pick any 2. -f -- think honk if you're a telepath.