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Winmodem-like solid state storageWinmodem-like solid state storagePosted Apr 12, 2009 1:46 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: Winmodem-like solid state storage by jzbiciak Parent article: Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop, day 2
What I'd like to see is something I can get off the shelf at my local Computer Mart (or on the web) that plugs into my PC and gives me raw flash. If a PCIe expansion socket is sufficient, several companies are now selling that. I remember IBM demonstrating last year a prototype storage server composed of a bunch of Linux systems with Fusion-IO PCI Express cards for storage. It broke some kind of record. In that system, the flash storage still appeared as a block device, but it did it at the Linux block device interface instead of at the SCSI physical interface.
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Winmodem-like solid state storage Posted Apr 16, 2009 18:53 UTC (Thu) by wmf (guest, #33791) [Link]
Fusion io is not raw flash since the driver contains a sophisticated FTL that cannot be disabled. In theory they could release an MTD driver, but they're not going to.
Winmodem-like solid state storage Posted Apr 16, 2009 20:15 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] Fusion io is not raw flash since the driver contains a sophisticated FTL that cannot be disabled. In theory they could release an MTD driver, but they're not going to. Is the driver you're talking about a Linux kernel module? An object code only one? What is MTD?
All this has happened before... Posted Apr 16, 2009 21:55 UTC (Thu) by wmf (guest, #33791) [Link] Is the driver you're talking about a Linux kernel module? An object code only one?Yep. What is MTD?How you access raw flash. See also UBIFS Raw flash vs. FTL devices.
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