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> On 27 Mar 2015, at 11:28, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> So - is anyone planning on working on the minimum set of stuff to
> expose the write topology for these shingled disks, so experiments can
> start being made?
>=20
> Even just knowing the shingle size(s) for writes would be enough to do
> useful amounts of work from userspace.

The presentation suggests it's all hidden and there's no public way to =
find it out.

So like the whole 4k farrago again :(

--
Daniel O'Connor
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
 -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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