Flash storage: a. How is the flash translation table, which is used to map logical page numbers

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Flash storage:

a. How is the flash translation table, which is used to map logical page numbers to physical page numbers, created in memory?

b. Suppose you have a 64-gigabyte flash storage system, with a 4096-byte page size. How big would the flash translation table be, assuming each page has a 32-bit address, and the table is stored as an array? 

c. Suggest how to reduce the size of the translation table if very often long ranges of consecutive logical page numbers are mapped to consecutive physical page numbers.

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Database System Concepts

ISBN: 9780078022159

7th Edition

Authors: Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

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