On Fri, 7 November 2008 07:34:26 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > It's the opposite of a _flash_ friendly policy. But SSDs are not naive > flash implementations -- if you overwrite a block, it'll just write > elsewhere and update its internal mapping of LBAs to sectors. I Note that for many of the *cough* cheaper implementations, "elsewhere" is still very close to the specified address. Jörn -- When people work hard for you for a pat on the back, you've got to give them that pat. -- Robert Heinlein -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html