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Flash Translation Layer

Posted Oct 5, 2009 23:39 UTC (Mon) by flash-translation-layer (guest, #61101)
In reply to: Flash Translation Layer by tmassey
Parent article: Log-structured file systems: There's one in every SSD

I was developing SSDs and flash-based file system, so I am very interested in this article.

SSD is currently a small but growing industry, there are many flash-based devices (SSDs, SD cards, USB drives) are designed & manufactured in China, also contains the IC controllers.

Therefore I want this article reader to know the flash-based file system usage situation.

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Flash Translation Layer

Posted Oct 6, 2009 0:13 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Your "use our product" might have worked better if you were providing raw
flash for the semi-mass-market (i.e. LWN readers, who are willing to pay
over the odds, but not hugely).

However, you're providing... an apparently closed-source FTL. The very
thing that the article you followed up to is (rightly) criticising. (Of
course if it *is* open source, well, that's nicer but we still need raw
flash to use it with.)

Pardon me for thinking that you didn't read it very carefully.