Bug#693156: ITP: flashbench -- identify flash storage properties

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrijs.ledkovs@canonical.com>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrijs.ledkovs@canonical.com>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : flashbench
  Version         : 62 (2012-06-06)
  Upstream Author : Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* URL or Web page : http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/arnd/flashbench.git;a=summary
* License         : GPL-2
  Description     : identify flash storage properties

 This utility helps to identify properties of SD cards and flash based
 storage. In particular it can be used to discover page and segement
 sizes and maximum number of concurrently open segments. These
 properties can then be used to better align paritions and tune
 filesystem options for maximum performance.

 It was used to produce Flash Card Survey.

 There was an article in LWN.net about it.

 https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Kernel/Projects/FlashCardSurvey
 https://lwn.net/Articles/428584/

Regards,

Dmitrijs.