Hi ..... bringing us full circle to the original question about the TRIM command's full integration into FreeBSD at the file system level.
Bob -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:18 AM To: Bob Camp Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 with SSD disks In message <[email protected]>, Bob Camp writes: >Hi > >If half the disk is un-used, there's a *lot* of space to move the directory sectors off to as they wear ... Yeah, well, only if the Flash-Adaptation-Layer *know* they are unused. That is why you need to tell Flash drives when you delete files, that the content sectors are now unused, otherwise the FAL will faithfully carry their content around, wearing out your flash-cells doing so. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
