Just came across another SSD based paper from M$.
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/76522/tr-2008-169.pdf
It discusses deployment issues into servers.
Greg
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Greg Freemyer greg.freem...@gmail.com wrote:
For a good technical overview of how a SSD is implemented
For a good technical overview of how a SSD is implemented inside the
SSD itself read
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/63596/USENIX-08-SSD.pdf
This whitepaper was written prior to the TRIM functionality being
implemented in SSDs, so it does not talk about that. But merely says
it would be nice
Any filesystem can be used for SSD, but some are better suited due to
SSD's hardware characteristic, among which is a lack of a moving
read/write head. so which are the FS specially written to take
advantage of this feature?
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Peter Teoh htmldevelo...@gmail.com wrote:
Any filesystem can be used for SSD, but some are better suited due to
SSD's hardware characteristic, among which is a lack of a moving
read/write head. so which are the FS specially written to take
advantage of this
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Greg Freemyer greg.freem...@gmail.com wrote:
Those articles don't highlight it, but it is my understanding that in
the linux vanilla kernel only ext4, vfat, and btrfs (new in 2.6.29 I
believe) have been enhanced to make the DISCARD calls.
sorrywhat is a
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:06 AM, andi andi.platsc...@gmail.com wrote:
Peter Teoh wrote:
Any filesystem can be used for SSD, but some are better suited due to
SSD's hardware characteristic, among which is a lack of a moving
read/write head. so which are the FS specially written to take
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Peter Teoh htmldevelo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Greg Freemyer greg.freem...@gmail.com
wrote:
Those articles don't highlight it, but it is my understanding that in
the linux vanilla kernel only ext4, vfat, and btrfs (new in 2.6.29 I
thank you.but then i don't really understand...please help me out:
quoting from the article:
At the lower levels, groups like the T13 committee (which manages the
ATA standards) have created protocol extensions to allow the host
computer to indicate that certain sectors are no longer in use;
