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From: jim owens <jowens@hp.com>
Subject: Re: thin provisioned LUN support & file system allocation policy
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:26:04 -0500
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Ric Wheeler wrote:

> The type of allocation that would help most is something that tries to 
> keep the lower block ranges "hot" for allocation, second best policy 
> would simply keep the allocated blocks in each block group hot and 
> re-allocate them.

This block reuse policy ignores the issue of wear leveling...
as in most design things, trading one problem for another.

jim