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LCA: Why filesystems are hard

LCA: Why filesystems are hard

Posted Jan 21, 2010 11:13 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: LCA: Why filesystems are hard by dwmw2
Parent article: LCA: Why filesystems are hard

The 'filesystem' inside an SSD may be buggy and unreliable, but does its expected failure rate exceed the chance of mechanical failure you'd have with a hard disk? Nobody expects an SSD to work as a reliable backup medium, so it may not matter.


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