Tim: > > Including modifications to the same data? Sam Varshavchik: > Correct. "Wear leveling" is the buzzword here. As far as the OS is concerned > it's writing to the same sector #n, but internally the drive spreads the > writes around, it maintains an internal map of physical versus logical > sector. The conclusion is still the same: every SSD in existence has an > internal suicide clock that will tick, it's not a question of if, but when. > The drive's internal firmware does a lot of work to make sure that the clock > keeps ticking, reliably.
I wonder if there's a size limit to that mapping table? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
