From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: Re: SSD - TRIM command Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:04:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4D6335D6.7000609@cfl.rr.com> References: <4D62CF5F.6080007@cfl.rr.com> <20110222003610.GB29101@bounceswoosh.org> <4D63218F.2000309@cfl.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Roberto Spadim Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mathias_Bur=E9n?= , "Eric D. Mudama" , David Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 02/21/2011 10:29 PM, Roberto Spadim wrote: > what device level could do? use a 'good block' (if exists) => dynamic > reallocation > 'good block' = block not in use by filesystem, not marked as bad, can > be used by realloc No. It can only use blocks reserved for spares at manufacture time. It can not use any old block that the fs is not using at the time, because the fs may choose to use it in the future.