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Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs

From Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs
Date 2017-05-08 18:50 +0200
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On Mon 2017-05-08 13:50:05, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Mon, 08 May 2017 11:13:10 +0100
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 11:09 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > You're forgetting that the SSD itself (this thread is about SSDs) also has
> > > a major software component which is doing housekeeping all the time, so even
> > > if the main CPU gets reset the SSD's controller may still happily be erasing
> > > blocks.  
> > 
> > We're not really talking about SSDs at all any more; we're talking
> > about real flash with real maintainable software.
> 
> It's probably a good sign that this new discussion should take place in
> a different thread :-).

Well, you are right.. and I'm responsible.

What I was trying to point out was that storage people try to treat
SSDs as HDDs... and SSDs are very different. Harddrives mostly survive
powerfails (with emergency parking), while it is very, very difficult
to make SSD survive random powerfail, and we have to make sure we
always powerdown SSDs "cleanly".

									Pavel
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Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-05-08 00:00 +0200
  Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 09:30 +0200
    Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@axis.com> - 2017-05-08 09:40 +0200
      Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 10:20 +0200
        Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@axis.com> - 2017-05-08 10:40 +0200
          Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 11:00 +0200
            Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@axis.com> - 2017-05-08 11:10 +0200
              Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> - 2017-05-08 11:10 +0200
                Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 12:20 +0200
                Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-05-08 14:00 +0200
                Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 17:50 +0200
                Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-05-08 23:40 +0200
                Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-05-08 18:50 +0200
                Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-05-08 19:50 +0200
                Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-05-08 21:00 +0200
                Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-05-08 21:10 +0200
                RE: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Atlant Schmidt <aschmidt@dekaresearch.com> - 2017-05-08 20:50 +0200
              Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 12:20 +0200
    Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-05-08 11:30 +0200
      Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 11:40 +0200
        Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-05-08 13:00 +0200
          Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 13:10 +0200
            Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-05-08 14:00 +0200
            Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-05-08 14:00 +0200
              Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-05-08 14:20 +0200
          Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2017-05-08 13:20 +0200
            Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-05-08 14:40 +0200
      Re: Race to power off harming SATA SSDs Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 12:00 +0200

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