Re: thin provisioned LUN support & file system allocation policy

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>>>>> "Ted" == Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes:

Ted> How much of a disk wear factor is there with modern disk drives?
Ted> The heads aren't touching the disk, and we have plenty of sectors
Ted> which are constantly getting rewritten with traditional
Ted> filesystems, with no ill effects as far as I know.

Modern disk firmware maintains a list of write hot spots and will
regularly rewrite adjacent sectors to prevent bleed.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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