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bradfa / flashbench

flashbench

Testing tool for managed flash memory devices, see the 'dev' branch for updates which aren't yet "upstream" and report your results to the flashbench-results mailing list ->

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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
215GitHub stars
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What it is

Testing tool for managed flash memory devices, see the 'dev' branch for updates which aren't yet "upstream" and report your results to the flashbench-results mailing list ->

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-01-08 12:35:13 UTC to 2022-05-26 02:55:56 UTC.

012017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Once upon a time, Linaro produced flashbench, a tool for learning more information about how managed NAND devices (mmc, sdcard, etc) actually manage their flash. LWN did a story on some of their conclusions [1]. One of the standouts for me was that some erase blocks are managed completely differently from others, such that random i/o performance can vary based on the location on the device. Traditional filesystem benchmarks aren't set up to observe this behavior. IIUC, F2FS incorporated some of that information, and not much else has. But in principle, you should manage your device with short extents and inode tables in the small-block-friendly area, and larger extents elsewhere whenever possible. [0]: https://github.com/bradfa/flashbench [1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/428584/
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