Re: ssd optimised mode

[Dongjun Shin <djshin90@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Dmitri Nikulin <dnikulin@gmail.com> w=
rote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Martin K. Petersen
> <martin.petersen@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Dmitri" =3D=3D Dmitri Nikulin <dnikulin@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Dmitri> Already SanDisk are offering a proprietary "Extreme FFS"
>> Dmitri> (perhaps even based on Unix FFS) for Windows Vista only.
>>
>> Extreme FFS is SanDisk's next generation FTL/firmware. =A0It's not a
>> filesystem that plugs into the OS.
>
> If that's the case, why is it marketed for Windows Vista only, and
> referring to filesystem features like marking unused blocks? Surely i=
f
> it was at the device level it would be OS-neutral, and marketed as
> such.
>

It's marketed for Windows 7 and Windows 7 has feature that send down
trim/discard info to the storage.

Anyway, Linux support for trim is under way [1].

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Dongjun

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/git/willy/ssd.git;a=3Dshort=
log;h=3Dtrim-20090212
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