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From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"杨苏立 Yang Su Li" <suli@cs.wisc.edu>,
	"General Discussion of SQLite Database" <sqlite-users@sqlite.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	drh@hwaci.com
Subject: Re: [sqlite] light weight write barriers
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:55:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <508B3EF8.4000703@vlnb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121025135044.GA13562@thunk.org>


Theodore Ts'o, on 10/25/2012 09:50 AM wrote:
> Yeah....  I don't buy that.  One, flash is still too expensive.  Two,
> the capital costs to build enough Silicon foundries to replace the
> current production volume of HDD's is way too expensive for any
> company to afford (the cloud providers are buying *huge* numbers of
> HDD's) --- and that's assuming companies wouldn't chose to use those
> foundries for products with larger margins --- such as, for example,
> CPU/GPU chips. :-) And third and finally, if you study the long-term
> trends in terms of Data Retention Time (going down), Program and Read
> Disturb (going up), and Write Endurance (going down) as a function of
> feature size and/or time, you'd be wise to treat flash as nothing more
> than short-term cache, and not as a long term stable store.
>
> If end users completely give up on flash, and store all of their
> precious family pictures on flash storage, after a couple of years,
> they are likely going to be very disappointed....
>
> Speaking personally, I wouldn't want to have anything on flash for
> more than a few months at *most* before I made sure I had another copy
> saved on spinning rust platters for long-term retention.

Here I agree with you.

Vlad

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-27  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CALwJ=MzHjAOs4J4kGH6HLdwP8E88StDWyAPVumNg9zCWpS9Tdg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-10-10 17:17 ` light weight write barriers Andi Kleen
2012-10-11 16:32   ` [sqlite] " 杨苏立 Yang Su Li
2012-10-11 17:41     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-23 19:53     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-10-24 21:17       ` Nico Williams
2012-10-24 22:03         ` david
2012-10-25  0:20           ` Nico Williams
2012-10-25  1:04             ` david
2012-10-25  5:18               ` Nico Williams
2012-10-25  6:02                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-25  6:58                   ` david
2012-10-25 14:03                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-25 18:03                       ` david
2012-10-25 18:29                         ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-05 20:03                           ` Pavel Machek
2012-11-05 22:04                             ` Theodore Ts'o
     [not found]                               ` <CALwJ=Mx-uEFLXK2wywekk=0dwrwVFb68wocnH9bjXJmHRsJx3w@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-05 23:00                                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-30 23:49                   ` Nico Williams
2012-10-25  5:42           ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-25  7:11             ` david
2012-10-27  1:52         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-10-25  5:14       ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-25 13:03         ` Alan Cox
2012-10-25 13:50           ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-27  1:55             ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin [this message]
2012-10-27  1:54         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-10-27  4:44           ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-30 22:22             ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-10-31  9:54               ` Alan Cox
2012-11-01 20:18                 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-11-01 21:24                   ` Alan Cox
2012-11-02  0:15                     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-11-02  0:38                     ` Howard Chu
2012-11-02 12:33                       ` Alan Cox
2012-11-13  3:41                         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-11-13 17:40                           ` Alan Cox
2012-11-13 19:13                             ` Nico Williams
2012-11-15  1:17                               ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-11-15 12:07                                 ` David Lang
2012-11-16 15:06                                   ` Howard Chu
2012-11-16 15:31                                     ` Ric Wheeler
2012-11-16 15:54                                       ` Howard Chu
2012-11-16 18:03                                         ` Ric Wheeler
2012-11-16 19:14                                     ` David Lang
2012-11-17  5:02                                   ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
     [not found]                                   ` <CABK4GYNGrbes2Yhig4ioh-37OXg6iy6gqb3u8A2P2_dqNpMqoQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-17  5:02                                     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-11-15 17:06                                 ` Ryan Johnson
2012-11-15 22:35                                   ` Chris Friesen
2012-11-17  5:02                                     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-11-20  1:23                                       ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-11-26 20:05                                         ` Nico Williams
2012-11-29  2:15                                           ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-11-15  1:16                             ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2012-11-13  3:37                       ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
     [not found]                       ` <CALwJ=MwtFAz7uby+YzPPp2eBG-y+TUTOu9E9tEJbygDQW+s_tg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-13  3:41                         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
     [not found]           ` <CABK4GYMmigmi7YM9A5Aga21ZWoMKgUe3eX-AhPzLw9CnYhpcGA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-13  3:42             ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
     [not found]   ` <CALwJ=MyR+nU3zqi3V3JMuEGNwd8FUsw9xLACJvd0HoBv3kRi0w@mail.gmail.com>
2012-10-11 16:38     ` Nico Williams
2012-10-11 16:48       ` Nico Williams

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