Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757582AbZAOFh5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:37:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753485AbZAOFhr (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:37:47 -0500 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.172]:9012 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753417AbZAOFhp (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:37:45 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=WcpcIry3Xxli7/gxiyg/kU/YjWDlL/x++44xhVjbL/fr8TA8lvEELldU16sXn2B88l VrKKeGvadFm9XvL90pEbK+tGB6GBXccw28Cqq8aacCYN8kYQ3/87Mw40UnybVppkg2dR bvXn3kLEXc0KDXSrTCgSSNFFZGsOzUCZHlA8E= Message-ID: <496ECBA0.60209@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:37:36 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Bottomley CC: Michael Tokarev , Jens Axboe , Kay Sievers , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: export SSD/non-rotational queue flag through sysfs References: <200901051952.58029.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20090105185428.GS32491@kernel.dk> <20090106073515.GY32491@kernel.dk> <4964866D.8010503@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <1231342473.3282.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1231342473.3282.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 716 Lines: 21 Hello, James Bottomley wrote: > I'm afraid that's pretty much marketing coolaid. Rotational storage > will dominate for the forseeable future: just do a simple back of the > envelope calculation: Or just compare prices per byte of memory, flash and rotation disk. They haven't had changed too much during last several years. Secondary storage which is only slightly cheaper than the primary storage doesn't have much chance of flying high and far. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/