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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:55:15 -0700
From:      "Martin Fouts" <mfouts@danger.com>
To:        "Bakul Shah" <bakul@bitblocks.com>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Christopher Arnold <chris@arnold.se>, arch@freebsd.org, qpadla@gmail.com, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Flash disks and FFS layout heuristics 
Message-ID:  <B95CEC1093787C4DB3655EF330984818051D0E@EXCHANGE.danger.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080331223846.CFD975BAE@mail.bitblocks.com>
References:  Your message of "Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:23:37 -0000." <26080.1207002217@critter.freebsd.dk> <20080331223846.CFD975BAE@mail.bitblocks.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bakul Shah [mailto:bakul@bitblocks.com]=20
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 3:39 PM
> To: Poul-Henning Kamp
> Cc: Matthew Dillon; Christopher Arnold; arch@freebsd.org;=20
> qpadla@gmail.com; freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Martin Fouts
> Subject: Re: Flash disks and FFS layout heuristics=20

> One thing I forgot to add: I'd let the lower level handle bad=20
> block forwarding and wear levelling (like on the m-tron device).
>=20

One of the difficulties of doing things this way comes from the
complexity of dealing with garbage collection when you want to reuse an
erase unit.




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