Joerg Schilling wrote:
Erik Trimble <erik.trim...@sun.com> wrote:

From ZFS's standpoint, the optimal configuration would be for the SSD to inform ZFS as to it's PAGE size, and ZFS would use this as the fundamental BLOCK size for that device (i.e. all writes are in integer

It seems that a command to retrieve this information does not yet exist,
or could you help me?

Jörg

Sadly, no, there does not exist any way for the SSD to communicate that info back to the OS.

Probably, the smart thing to push for is inclusion of some new command in the ATA standard (in a manner like TRIM). Likely something that would return both native Block and Page sizes upon query.

I'm still trying to see if there will be any support for TRIM-like things in SAS.



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