[Beowulf] SSD caching for parallel filesystems

[Christopher Samuel]

On 10/02/13 08:32, Bill Broadley wrote:

> SSDs and controllers often support NCQ which allows multiple
> outstanding requests.

That's only useful if the SATA spec lists the command as being
queueable, and until SATA 3.1 TRIM wasn't one of those (and so
executing it hit performance, and not executing it can also harm
performance for certain drives).

http://techreport.com/news/21311/sata-3-1-spec-brings-swap-standard-improved-trim

cheers,
Chris
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