On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:10:15AM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > That implies that the SSD folks are not treating erase blocks as a > contiguous group of sectors. For some reason, I thought their was > only one mapping per erase block and within the erase block the > sectors were contiguous.. I believe there is a mapping per LBA, not per erase block. Of course, different technologies will have different limitations here, but it would be foolish to assume anything about SSDs at this point. (For those who haven't heard my disclaimer before, the Intel SSD team don't tell me anything fun about how the drives work internally). -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
