big flash disks?

Jamie Lokier jamie at shareable.org
Mon Jun 2 06:43:30 EDT 2008


Jörn Engel wrote:
> At the moment, the flash one can sensibly attach to a notebook is an
> SSD with SATA interface.  It has a bunch of disadvantages and there is
> no point in listing them all.  But it is the reality and denying it
> doesn't change that.  And this reality is the reason why logfs needs
> another format change and Linus doesn't want to have it merged yet.
> Making it perform well on SSDs comes first. :)

I'm surprised.
What sort of format change does SSD require, relative to NOR/NAND flash?

For SSD I would like to see a filesystem that combines the best
characteristics of btrfs and logfs - the are enough similarities
between them.

-- Jamie



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