NAND Framework in HEAD.

Maurizio Vairani maurizio.vairani at cloverinformatica.it
Fri May 18 12:10:13 UTC 2012


On 18/05/2012 3.10, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2012, Don Lewis wrote:
>>
>> Any thoughts on how well NAND FS might work on SSDs as compared to
>> something like UFS, which isn't aware of the properties of the
>> underlying storage?  I would think that avoiding random block overwrites
>> would help performance and device lifetime.
>
> Filesystems designed to work with raw NAND Flash take care of issues 
> like bad block management and garbage collecting freed blocks.  These 
> are functionalities already embedded in SSDs.
>
> Even zfs avoids random block overwrites.
>
> Bob
Hi have a Root on ZFS FreeBSD 8.2 server on 3 USB Flash Disks in RAID 1 
configuration.  Is there any advantage using NAND FS instead of ZFS ?
Thanks
Maurizio




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