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Date:      Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:23:55 -0400
From:      Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-projects@freebsd.org, Grzegorz Bernacki <gjb@semihalf.com>, Grzegorz Bernacki <gber@freebsd.org>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r233073 - projects/nand/sys/geom
Message-ID:  <20120317162355.1f7736f5@kan.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmomB_a9LfgmA-p1Zv7Sa%2BLdXZMo6=qSkKSPqCRWDNSDMOA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201203170323.q2H3NDCs048073@svn.freebsd.org> <20120317085609.GD1340@garage.freebsd.pl> <4F64D357.6080104@semihalf.com> <CAJ-VmomB_a9LfgmA-p1Zv7Sa%2BLdXZMo6=qSkKSPqCRWDNSDMOA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:37:20 -0700
Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hiya,
>=20
> If you're going to add new BIOs, can I possibly request we add a
> "BIO_WRITE" variant for NOR flash, that can be interpreted as "don't
> do a read-modify-write, but simply write over whatever the underlying
> storage device has" ?
>=20
> That way NOR flash filesystems can do incremental writes of pages
> without having to do a read/erase/modify/write pass, where the erase
> is very very expensive.
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
>=20
> Adrian

You do not do that with NAND, not with any of the recent chips anyway,
unless you hate your data and want it dead :)

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Alexander Kabaev

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