On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:41:35PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: >> Will we be able to query the device and find out its TRIM/UNMAP >> alignment requirements? There is also a balanace between performance >> (at least if the concern is sending too many separate TRIM commands) >> and giving the SSD more flexibility in its wear-leveling allocation >> decisions by sending TRIM commands sooner rather than later. >> > > T10 is still working on the proposal for how to display unmap related > information for SCSI, so we don't even have a consistent way to find > this out today for this population. Yeah, I know, the rhetorical question was mostly addressed at David Black. :-) > Not sure what is possible for the ATA devices, I thought ATA didn't have any TRIM alignment requirements, and it's T10 that wants to add it to the SCSI side? - Ted -- 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
