freebsd-swap on ssd

[Adam Vande More]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> wrote:

> ahh is see. i wasn't aware of that. so in theory doing
>
> while true; do dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 of=/dev/ssd count=1; done
>
> will not overwrite the first sector continuously, but the ssd controller
> will
> make sure the writes are being sprinkled all over the actual ssd?
>

Sounds like you are seeking info on this process:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling

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Adam Vande More