FreeBSD NAND flash driver
Aragon Gouveia
aragon at phat.za.net
Mon Apr 6 07:21:54 PDT 2009
Hi,
Andrew Turner wrote:
> Yes, this is intentional as NAND flash is split up to blocks. The
> blocks are then split into pages. You have to erase the entire block at
> a time but can write pages as required. A file system that knows about
> this difference will be able to talk to nand(8) directly.
What I know about file systems and UFS is pretty limited, so forgive me
if what follows are silly questions.
Are there any defragmentation routines in UFS that could/should be
disabled when using it on a flash device? I know a file system can be
optimized for space or time with tunefs(8). I imagine optimizing for
space would be best for a flash device? Is there anything else other
than that and your work that can improve flash support?
Thanks,
Aragon
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