AW: g_vfs_done():da3s1a[READ(offset=81064794762854400, length=8192)]error = 5

Eric Anderson anderson at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 15 09:52:35 PDT 2007


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <47137634.1010703 at freebsd.org>, Eric Anderson writes:
> 
>> Solid state drives don't behave much differently that a regular drive 
>>from FreeBSD's point of view.
> 
> Yes and no.  The effective lack of seek time has the potential to expose
> a lot of flawed reasoning in filesystems with respect to ordering and
> duration of I/O requests.
> 
> It might be a good idea to have GEOM module that could implement a
> seek-time sort of behaviour, just for being able to falsifying that
> theory.
> 


Or an option to gnop?

Eric



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