Next year will see 100GB SSD cheap as chips, but why does Linux need to format an SSD?

Mar 22, 2012 25 Replies

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7 14 years ago

If any of what you rant about has anything to with reality or is in with the topic, invite yourself back.

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Ezekiel 14 years ago

If any of the nonsense that you rant about has anything to do with reality then you should invite yourself back.

Once AGAIN - you seem know absolutely nothing about anything and aren't shy about exposing your ignorance.

"I've done for example SQL optimization and the reason I could do it better than the best high level experts can do was because I think in hex and bits and byte movements. If you know the assembler in detail, you would know what "select * from employees" would translate into assembler and how different and yet similar that would be from "select name from employees" Babbling idiot "7" March 7, 2012

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Phil Carmody 14 years ago

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So what do you call the process of making a RAM filesystem, for /tmp or /dev, or whatever?

Phil

> I'd argue that there is much evidence for the existence of a God. Pics or it didn't happen. -- Tom (/. uid 822)

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hamilton 14 years ago

I'm not sure who said this, but please define "formats ram"

or is this a joke ??

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unruh 14 years ago

It is partly a joke and partly serious. The operating system must have tables which tell it where things are-- memory, programs, data, drivers, ... That is want a format is, a formal setup about how one finds stuff on a disk drive. Just such a formal setup is also needed for ram. Now on a disk that format is set up once when the disk is readied for storing data. In ram it is set up when the operating system boots ( and dynamically while it runs). But in either case, there needs to be a formal setup allowing things to be found.

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