Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Large block for I/O

Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-22T05:37:43Z

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 05:13:43AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> It clearly solves a problem (and the one I think it's solving is the
> size of the FTL map). But I can't see why we should stop working on it,
> just because not all drive manufacturers want to support it.

I don't think it is drive vendors. It is is the SSD divisions which
all pretty much love it (for certain use cases) vs the UFS/eMMC
divisions which tends to often be fearful and less knowledgeable (to
say it nicely) no matter what vendor you're talking to.