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Date:      Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:52:08 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        d_elbracht <d_elbracht@ecngs.de>, 'Ivan Voras' <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AW: g_vfs_done():da3s1a[READ(offset=81064794762854400, length=8192)]error = 5
Message-ID:  <47139AB8.9060602@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <48313.1192460796@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <48313.1192460796@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <47137634.1010703@freebsd.org>, Eric Anderson writes:
> 
>> Solid state drives don't behave much differently that a regular drive 
>>from FreeBSD's point of view.
> 
> Yes and no.  The effective lack of seek time has the potential to expose
> a lot of flawed reasoning in filesystems with respect to ordering and
> duration of I/O requests.
> 
> It might be a good idea to have GEOM module that could implement a
> seek-time sort of behaviour, just for being able to falsifying that
> theory.
> 


Or an option to gnop?

Eric




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