Re: [PATCH 00/16] f2fs: introduce flash-friendly file system

[Namjae Jeon]

2012/10/11, Changman Lee <cm224.lee@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2012ë 10ì 11ì ëììì Namjae Jeon<linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx>ëì ìì:
>> 2012/10/10 Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>>>
>>>> I mean that every volume is placed inside any partition (MTD or GPT).
> Every partition begins from any
>>>> physical sector. So, as I can understand, f2fs volume can begin from
> physical sector that is laid
>>>> inside physical erase block. Thereby, in such case of formating the
> f2fs's operation units will be
>>>> unaligned in relation of physical erase blocks, from my point of view.
> Maybe, I misunderstand
>>>> something but it can lead to additional FTL operations and performance
> degradation, from my point of
>>>> view.
>>>
>>> I think mkfs already calculates the offset to align that.
>> I think this answer is not what he want.
>> If you don't use partition table such as dos partition table or gpt, I
>> think that it is possible to align using mkfs.
>> But If we should consider partition table space in storage, I don't
>> understand how it  could be align using mkfs.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> We can know the physical starting sector address of any partitions from
> hdio geometry information got by ioctl.
If so, first block and end block of partition are useless ?

Thanks.
>
>>> Thanks,
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