On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:32:58AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > Flash is (can be) a bit more sophisticated. The problem is that they > have a limited write endurance -- typically spec'ed at 100k writes to > any single bit. The good flash drives use block relocation, spares, and > write spreading to avoid write hot spots. For many file systems, the > place to worry is the block(s) containing your metadata. ZFS inherently > spreads and mirrors its metadata, so it should be more appropriate for > flash devices than FAT or UFS.
What about the UberBlock? It's written each time a transaction group commits. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
