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From: Martin <m_btrfs@ml1.co.uk>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature Req: "mkfs.btrfs -d dup" option on single device
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:07:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <l89rin$edg$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK5rZE6G0WDf6rxjS7o9Cggq-CehASG1ge4bLnJm=SmHA40new@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/12/13 03:19, Imran Geriskovan wrote:

SSDs:

> What's more (in relation to our long term data integrity aim)
> order of magnitude for their unpowered data retension period is
> 1 YEAR. (Read it as 6months to 2-3 years. While powered they
> refresh/shuffle the blocks) This makes SSDs
> unsuitable for mid-to-long tem consumer storage. Hence they are
> out of this discussion. (By the way, the only way for reliable
> duplication on SSDs, is using physically seperate devices.)

Interesting...

Have you any links/quotes/studies/specs for that please?


Does btrfs need to date-stamp each block/chunk to ensure that data is
rewritten before suffering flash memory bitrot?

Is not the firmware in SSDs aware to rewrite any too-long unchanged data?


Regards,
Martin


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-11 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-10 20:31 Feature Req: "mkfs.btrfs -d dup" option on single device Imran Geriskovan
2013-12-10 22:41 ` Chris Murphy
2013-12-10 23:33   ` Imran Geriskovan
2013-12-10 23:40     ` Chris Murphy
     [not found]       ` <CAK5rZE6DVC5kYAU68oCjjzGPS4B=nRhOzATGM-5=m1_bW4GG6g@mail.gmail.com>
2013-12-11  0:17         ` Fwd: " Imran Geriskovan
2013-12-11  0:33         ` Chris Murphy
2013-12-11  3:19           ` Imran Geriskovan
2013-12-11  4:07             ` Chris Murphy
2013-12-11  8:09               ` Hugo Mills
2013-12-11 16:15                 ` Chris Murphy
2013-12-11 17:46                 ` Duncan
2013-12-11 14:07             ` Martin [this message]
2013-12-11 15:31               ` Imran Geriskovan
2013-12-11 23:32               ` SSD data retention, was: " Chris Murphy
2013-12-11  7:39           ` Feature Req: " Duncan
2013-12-11 10:56           ` Duncan
2013-12-11 13:19             ` Imran Geriskovan
2013-12-11 18:27               ` Duncan
2013-12-12 15:57                 ` Chris Mason
2013-12-12 17:58                   ` David Sterba
2013-12-13  9:33                     ` Duncan
2013-12-17 18:37                   ` Imran Geriskovan

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