On Wednesday 17 August 2011, Yasushi SHOJI wrote:
The version of btrfs that I'm looking at does not have any optimization for cheap flash drives, only for SSD.
does anyone checked on seekwatcher[1], a visualizing tool Chris Mason has wrote. I'm pretty sure that Chris would like to hear what went good and bad for btrfs as an embedded system's root file system.
Ah, thanks for the link. This is similar to Tixy's tool, but it focuses on a different aspect of drive performance: While you mostly care about seeks on hard drives, the most important performance factor on flash memory cards is garbage collection cycles. There is some correlation between the two, but also some significant differences.
I guess it would be possible to visualize GC in seekwatcher as well, if anyone is motivated enough.
Arnd