From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760285AbaCUJGm (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:06:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:17947 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751488AbaCUJGj (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:06:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:06:30 +0000 From: Joe Thornber To: device-mapper development Cc: snitzer@redhat.com, agk@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matias =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rling?= Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/01] dm-lightnvm introduction Message-ID: <20140321090630.GA30044@debian> Mail-Followup-To: device-mapper development , snitzer@redhat.com, agk@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matias =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rling?= References: <1395383538-18019-1-git-send-email-m@bjorling.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1395383538-18019-1-git-send-email-m@bjorling.me> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Matias, This looks really interesting and I'd love to get involved. Do you have any recommendations for what hardware I should pick up? - Joe On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:32:17PM -0700, Matias Bjørling wrote: > Hi, > > Users that have custom firmware SSDs, may choose to expose their flash directly. > This allows the host to control logical to physical address mappings, garbage > collection strategy, wear-leveling, and so on.