Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs

Boris Brezillon
2017-05-08T11:50:11Z

On Mon, 08 May 2017 11:13:10 +0100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 11:09 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > You're forgetting that the SSD itself (this thread is about SSDs) also has
> > a major software component which is doing housekeeping all the time, so even
> > if the main CPU gets reset the SSD's controller may still happily be erasing
> > blocks.
>
> We're not really talking about SSDs at all any more; we're talking
> about real flash with real maintainable software.

It's probably a good sign that this new discussion should take place in
a different thread :-).