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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Lukáš Czerner" <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>,
	"'Namjae Jeon'" <linkinjeon@gmail.com>,
	"'Vyacheslav Dubeyko'" <slava@dubeyko.com>,
	"'Marco Stornelli'" <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>,
	"'Jaegeuk Kim'" <jaegeuk.kim@gmail.com>,
	"'Al Viro'" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	tytso@mit.edu, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chur.lee@samsung.com,
	cm224.lee@samsung.com, jooyoung.hwang@samsung.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] f2fs: introduce flash-friendly file system
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:36:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349865374.6072.78.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1210091020390.11244@dhcp-1-104.brq.redhat.com>

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On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 10:31 +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
> I am sorry but this reply makes me smile. How can you design a fs
> relying on time attack heuristics to figure out what the proper
> layout should be ? Or even endorse such heuristics to be used in
> mkfs ? What we should be focusing on is to push vendors to actually
> give us such information so we can properly propagate that
> throughout the kernel - that's something everyone will benefit from.
> After that the optimization can be done in every file system.
> 
> Promoting time attack heuristics instead of pushing vendors to tell
> us how their hardware should be used is a journey to hell and we've
> been talking about this for a looong time now. And I imagine that
> you especially have quite some persuasion power.

The whole thing is silly. What we actually want on an embedded system is
to ditch the FTL altogether and have direct access to the NAND. Then we
can *know* our file system is behaving optimally. And we don't need
hacks like TRIM to try to make things a little less broken.

-- 
dwmw2

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-10 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <415E76CC-A53D-4643-88AB-3D7D7DC56F98@dubeyko.com>
2012-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 00/16] f2fs: introduce flash-friendly file system Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2012-10-06 20:06   ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-07  7:09     ` Marco Stornelli
2012-10-07  9:31       ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-07 12:08         ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2012-10-08  8:25           ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-08  9:59             ` Namjae Jeon
2012-10-08 10:52               ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-08 11:21                 ` Namjae Jeon
2012-10-08 12:11                   ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-09  3:52                     ` Namjae Jeon
2012-10-09  8:00                       ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-09  8:31                 ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-10-09 10:45                   ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-09 11:01                     ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-10-09 12:01                       ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-09 12:39                         ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-10-09 13:10                           ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-09 21:20                         ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-10  2:32                           ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-10  4:53                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-12 20:55                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-10 10:36                   ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2012-10-12 20:58                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-13  4:26                       ` Namjae Jeon
2012-10-13 12:37                         ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-17 11:12                           ` Namjae Jeon
     [not found]                             ` <000001cdacef$b2f6eaa0$18e4bfe0$%kim@samsung.com>
2012-10-18 13:39                               ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2012-10-18 22:14                                 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-19  9:20                                 ` NeilBrown
2012-10-08 19:22             ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2012-10-09  7:08               ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-09 19:53                 ` Jooyoung Hwang
2012-10-10  8:05                   ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2012-10-10  9:02                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-10 11:52                     ` SQLite on flash (was: [PATCH 00/16] f2fs: introduce flash-friendly file system) Clemens Ladisch
2012-10-10  7:57                 ` [PATCH 00/16] f2fs: introduce flash-friendly file system Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2012-10-10  9:43                   ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-11  3:14                     ` Namjae Jeon
     [not found]                       ` <CAN863PuyMkSZtZCvqX+kwei9v=rnbBYVYr3TqBXF_6uxwJe2_Q@mail.gmail.com>
2012-10-17 11:13                         ` Namjae Jeon
2012-10-17 23:06                           ` Changman Lee
2012-10-12 12:30                     ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2012-10-12 14:25                       ` Jaegeuk Kim
2012-10-07 10:15     ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2012-10-05 11:55 김재극

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