Re: BTRFS && SSD

2010-09-30 Thread Yuehai Xu
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Sander wrote: > Yuehai Xu wrote (ao): >> So, is it a bottleneck in the case of SSD since the cost for over >> write is very high? For every write, I think the superblocks should be >> overwritten, it might be much more frequent than other co

Re: BTRFS && SSD

2010-09-30 Thread Yuehai Xu
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:51 AM, David Brown wrote: > On 29/09/2010 23:31, Yuehai Xu wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Sean Bartell >>  wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 02:45:29PM -0400, Yuehai Xu wrote: >>>> >>>

Re: BTRFS && SSD

2010-09-29 Thread Yuehai Xu
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Sean Bartell wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 02:45:29PM -0400, Yuehai Xu wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Sean Bartell >> wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:30:14AM -0400, Yuehai Xu wrote: >> >> I know BTRFS is

Re: BTRFS && SSD

2010-09-29 Thread Yuehai Xu
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Sean Bartell wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:30:14AM -0400, Yuehai Xu wrote: >> I know BTRFS is a kind of Log-structured File System, which doesn't do >> overwrite. Here is my question, suppose file A is overwritten by A', >&g

Re: BTRFS && SSD

2010-09-29 Thread Yuehai Xu
Hi, On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Dipl.-Ing. Michael Niederle wrote: > Hi Yuehai! > > I tested nilfs2 and btrfs for the use with flash based pen drives. > > nilfs2 performed incredibly well as long as there were enough free blocks. But > the garbage collector of nilfs used too much IO-bandwid

BTRFS && SSD

2010-09-29 Thread Yuehai Xu
Hi, I know BTRFS is a kind of Log-structured File System, which doesn't do overwrite. Here is my question, suppose file A is overwritten by A', instead of writing A' to the original place of A, a new place is selected to store it. However, we know that the address of a file should be recorded in i