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To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:53:12 -0700
From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
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Subject: Re: Flash disks and FFS layout heuristics 
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You should try running your experiment using ZFS. Because it is a
non-overwriting filesystem, it might work better with flash.

	Kirk McKusick