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geky

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    Comment #20850958

    Honestly most file systems haven't been designed to run on an FTLs (except maybe UBIFS). Most filesystems have been designed to run on magnetic disk drives, where wear is a non-iss…

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    Comment #20846770

    There's also some cases where you don't care about the devices that develop errors. Wear-leveling delays wear errors until the end of the device's life. Once these start to develop…

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    Comment #20846697

    You could as a sanity check, it would be useful to insure no corrupted data gets passed into your system. Though this wouldn't protect the filesystem completely.

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    Comment #20846656

    Error correction provides the same value as a checksum, but better. (the tradeoff is ECC codes are much larger and more expensive to compute) It's also worth noting the CRC is used…

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    Comment #20846549

    I'm not sure I'm following this snap operation. What is a "log tail" in this context? Does this the snap operation still work if we are copying over entries of the log lazily and w…

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    Comment #20846299

    Reading through 2.3.5 (Lists and Garbage Collection), it looks like it's describing a tree where the leaf nodes also contain references to the root of the next tree. This wouldn't …