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From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
To: Paul Ni <nikulinpi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Segment size
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 09:11:56 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399594316.13268.63.camel@kjgkr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN3U_kVBpbuaOQn6Q=obm5GmfOUdCLahWp6DXvUSaYnRj=frvA@mail.gmail.com>

2014-05-08 (목), 12:43 -0700, Paul Ni:
> On 6 May 2014 17:04, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > 2014-05-04 (일), 23:59 +0000, Paul Ni:
> > > Is it possible to set an arbitrary segment size? I'm trying to set it
> > > to 1.5MiB to make it align with erase blocks on flash chips in my EVO
> > > 840 SSD.
> >
> > Impossible. The hard-coded segment size is fixed to manange the whole FS
> > metadata.
> > If you want to adjust the underlying FTL layout, you can change the
> > section and zone sizes.
> > Thanks,
> >
[...]

> Is there any other way to avoid unaligned writes to erase blocks on
> TLC flash based SSDs? As far as I know, all TLC flash memory has erase
> blocks sizes in multiples of 3.

If you want to align more precisely to the storage, you can configure
the section size in multiples of 3.

For example,
mkfs.f2fs -s 3 $DEV
 -> this configures the sections consisting of 3 segments, 6MB.

Thanks,

-- 
Jaegeuk Kim
Samsung



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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-04 23:59 Segment size Paul Ni
2014-05-07  0:04 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2014-05-08 19:43   ` Paul Ni
2014-05-09  0:11     ` Jaegeuk Kim [this message]

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