From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:34734 "EHLO mail-wi0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751342AbbIIMMp (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:12:45 -0400 Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so154413066wic.1 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 05:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55F02239.3090809@plexistor.com> Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:12:41 +0300 From: Boaz Harrosh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Austin S Hemmelgarn , "Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)" , "dan.j.williams@intel.com" CC: "Knippers, Linda" , "util-linux@vger.kernel.org" , "Kani, Toshimitsu" , "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" Subject: Re: mkfs.btrfs cannot find rotational file for SSD detection for a pmem device References: <94D0CD8314A33A4D9D801C0FE68B40295BD1BF1F@G4W3202.americas.hpqcorp.net> <55EEDAE8.1060905@gmail.com> <94D0CD8314A33A4D9D801C0FE68B40295BD1EB13@G4W3202.americas.hpqcorp.net> <55F017CE.1090505@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55F017CE.1090505@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/09/2015 02:28 PM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2015-09-08 16:00, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory) wrote: <> > this may actually make things slower (the particular effect of SSD mode > is that it tries to spread allocations out as much as possible, as this > helps with wear-leveling on many SSD's). > For DRAM based NvDIMM it matters not at all. For Flash based or the new 3d Xpoint it is a plus, so no harm in leaving it in Just my 1.7 cents Boaz