From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 6 17:07:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4948616A417; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:07:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0270213C459; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:07:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9A91207E; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:06:50 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: -0.2/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8652049; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:06:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 796538449D; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:06:50 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Colin Percival References: <200801061212.m06CCjON027649@repoman.freebsd.org> <4780CC1B.8090708@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:06:50 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4780CC1B.8090708@freebsd.org> (Colin Percival's message of "Sun\, 06 Jan 2008 04\:39\:55 -0800") Message-ID: <86d4se6fyt.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/gstat gstat.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:07:00 -0000 Colin Percival writes: > I'm curious, why is this an issue with flash devices? Given their famous > ability to perform large numbers of transactions per second, I would have > expected flash-based drives to be the least likely to have this problem. three words: erase before write DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no