From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Claudio Martins Subject: Re: ssd optimised mode Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:48:55 +0000 Message-ID: <200902231648.55563.ctpm@ist.utl.pt> References: <934e480c0902200326m7647d87cq28bfa1675ef012f4@mail.gmail.com> <3a7f57190902221706l34e8f925m9ef687c1df920123@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Dmitri Nikulin , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: "Martin K. Petersen" Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: On Monday 23 February 2009, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > "Stuff" in this case is on the order of megabytes, not a few sectors > like on spinning media. With disk drives the risk of garbling unrela= ted > files is there but relatively small. On SSDs it's much higher becaus= e > of the big blocking and the high latency erase/rewrite cycle. In > several cases I've lost system binaries that obviously weren't being > written when I crashed the system. In one case I even lost all of > /sbin. > What brand of SSDs are we talking about? What filesystems did you expe= riment=20 with? Best regards Cl=C3=A1udio -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html