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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:17:47
Message-Id: 503A4B7B.9050301@wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Am 26.08.2012 16:21, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
2 > Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 14:49:08 schrieb Alex Schuster:
3 >> Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
4 >>> Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster:
5
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
16 Wonko

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>