Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:22:33 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/gstat gstat.c Message-ID: <1877.1199640153@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:06:50 %2B0100." <86d4se6fyt.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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In message <86d4se6fyt.fsf@ds4.des.no>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wr ites: >Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> 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 That's not all of it, but it would most likely help, yes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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