[dm-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/01] dm-lightnvm introduction
Matias Bjorling
m at bjorling.me
Fri Mar 21 15:22:24 UTC 2014
On 03/21/2014 02:06 AM, Joe Thornber wrote:
> Hi Matias,
>
> This looks really interesting and I'd love to get involved. Do you
> have any recommendations for what hardware I should pick up?
Hi Joe,
The most easily available platform is OpenSSD
(http://www.openssd-project.org). It's a little old, but still very
functional. When there's a good firmware implementation, I think it will
be easier for the custom SSD vendor's to jump on board with their own
firmware.
- Matias
>
> - Joe
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:32:17PM -0700, Matias Bjørling wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Users that have custom firmware SSDs, may choose to expose their flash directly.
>> This allows the host to control logical to physical address mappings, garbage
>> collection strategy, wear-leveling, and so on.
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