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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:39:28
Message-Id: 3763193.UloezmEAz0@energy
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking by Alex Schuster
1 Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 18:14:51 schrieb Alex Schuster:
2 > Am 26.08.2012 16:21, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
3 > > Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 14:49:08 schrieb Alex Schuster:
4 > >> Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
5 > >>> Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster:
6 > >> Yes, I know that. But why exactly does it help to align a partition to
7 > >> the erasable block size? I don't get it. Why isn't it sufficient to
8 > >> align to the usual 4K block size, so that a block never spans over two
9 > >> erasable blocks?
10 > >
11 > > well, for one, there are lots of ssd which have 8k pages. Not 4k.
12 >
13 > Whatever. Then align to 8K instead. But what does this have to do with
14 > the erasable page size?
15 >
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17 erasable BLOCK size is the imporant think. PAGE size (4 or 8K) not so much.
18 Because every write comes down to ERASE-WRITE.
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20 So you want to align to ERASE BLOCKS and not so much pages.
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