From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@norcrossgroup.com>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
Dongjun Shin <djshin90@gmail.com>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SSD data reliable vs. unreliable [Was: Re: Data Recovery from SSDs - Impact of trim?]
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:49:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49810B43.20108@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7fce22690901281556h67fb353dp879f88e6c2a76eaf@mail.gmail.com>
On 28/01/2009 23:56, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Once discard calls get into linux file systems mdraid and/or device
> mapper could implement linux's own thin provisioning implementation.
> Even with traditional disks that don't support unmap. I gather that
> is what the EMCs of the world will be doing in their platforms.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_provisioning
Sounds more like a device mapper or LVM thing (than md/RAID) to me, but
I'd definitely agree that this would be another great reason for block
devices to implement map/unmap.
And I wonder if there's room for another dm/md device type which just
implements these usage maps over traditional devices which don't support
unmap (much as I was wondering a few weeks back about a soft DIF
implementation over e.g. SATA devices). Darn it, I might just have to
dig out my school books on C; it's a while since I offered a kernel patch.
Cheers,
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-29 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-22 23:53 SSD data reliable vs. unreliable [Was: Re: Data Recovery from SSDs - Impact of trim?] Greg Freemyer
2009-01-23 20:40 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-01-23 22:24 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-23 23:26 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-01-23 23:35 ` Ric Wheeler
[not found] ` <7fce22690901260659u30ffd634m3fb7f75102141ee9@mail.gmail.com>
2009-01-26 16:22 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-01-26 17:34 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-01-26 17:46 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-01-26 17:47 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-27 5:16 ` Neil Brown
2009-01-27 10:49 ` John Robinson
2009-01-28 20:11 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] ` <7fce22690901281556h67fb353dp879f88e6c2a76eaf@mail.gmail.com>
2009-01-29 1:49 ` John Robinson [this message]
2009-01-27 11:23 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-01-28 20:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-01-27 14:48 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-27 14:54 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-01-26 17:51 ` Mark Lord
2009-01-26 18:09 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-01-26 18:21 ` Mark Lord
2009-01-29 14:07 ` Dongjun Shin
2009-01-29 15:46 ` Mark Lord
2009-01-29 16:27 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-01-30 15:43 ` Bill Davidsen
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