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FLASH drives do need a scheduler policy

Posted Oct 3, 2004 12:06 UTC (Sun) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
In reply to: FLASH drives do need a scheduler policy by axboe
Parent article: Modular, switchable I/O schedulers

Jens,

OK. I think one of the BSDs goes a bit further than write barriers in communicating time information. But I see your point that this can not go all of the way in reducing FLASH wear.

Thanks

Bruce

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