[http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/]
[http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/22/should-filesystems-be-optimized-for-ssds/]
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Aligning filesystems to an SSD's erase block size
February 20th, 2009 in Filesystems, Linux, SSD
I recently purchased a new toy, an Intel X25-M SSD, and when I was
setting it up initially, I decided I wanted to make sure the file
system was aligned on an erase block boundary. This is a generally
considered to be a Very Good Thing to do for most SSD's available
today, although there's some question about how important this really
is for Intel SSD's
[...]
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Should Filesystems Be Optimized for SSD's?
February 22nd, 2009 in Filesystems, Linux, SSD
In one of the comments to my last blog entry, an anonymous commenter writes:
You seem to be taking a different perspective to linus on the
"adapting to the the disk technology" front (Linus seems to against
having to have the OS know about disk boundaries and having to do
levelling itself)
That's an interesting question, and I figure it's worth its own
top-level entry, as opposed to a reply in the comment stream. One of
the interesting design questions in any OS or Computer Architecture is
where the abstraction boundaries should be drawn and which side of an
abstraction boundary should various operations be pushed.
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