From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dongjun Shin Subject: Re: ssd optimised mode Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:09:21 +0900 Message-ID: <7fe698080902232009j20cd5b5eu8fa1a4a1d83a4f17@mail.gmail.com> References: <934e480c0902200326m7647d87cq28bfa1675ef012f4@mail.gmail.com> <20090220160134.GE24890@unused.rdu.redhat.com> <1235147425.13249.16.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> <3a7f57190902211707h37ff1478vdc0e5ffff66fa4da@mail.gmail.com> <1235399593.11205.15.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> <3a7f57190902231616h15578ceal968c190b10a40157@mail.gmail.com> <3a7f57190902231953p1cf0be4aq911f065a74048b0c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" To: Dmitri Nikulin Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3a7f57190902231953p1cf0be4aq911f065a74048b0c@mail.gmail.com> List-ID: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Dmitri Nikulin w= rote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Martin K. Petersen > wrote: >>>>>>> "Dmitri" =3D=3D Dmitri Nikulin 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]. --=20 Dongjun [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/git/willy/ssd.git;a=3Dshort= log;h=3Dtrim-20090212 -- 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