Flexible Data Placement FDP Overview

Please join Mike Allison, the lead author of the technical proposal, as he provides an overview of the ratified NVM Express® (NVMe®) TP4146 FDP and shows how to capitalize on lower WAF, extended endurance, and improved write performance of SSDs. This presentation covers:
How to configure and enable FDP.
How to manage FDP resources across multiple namespaces.
The behavior of writing to the drive by software that does and does not utilize FDP.
The differences between FDP, zoned namespaces, and streams.
Speakers: Mike Allison, Sr. Director NAND Product Planning - Standards, Samsung; Chris Sabol, Software Architect, Google; Ross Stenfort, Hardware Systems Engineer, Storage, Meta
Download the slides: nvmexpress.org...

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That’s my dad!

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Cool that this is referred to as HINT. That's what we called it when we put it into the Apple stack in 2012. Is there a requirement that all super-blocks are the same size? That's not good.