Future storage technologies and Linux [LWN.net]

Future storage technologies and Linux

Posted Apr 8, 2011 1:30 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: Future storage technologies and Linux by eds
Parent article: Future storage technologies and Linux

It was from a paper exploring the data forensics ramifications. This one, I think:
http://www.jdfsl.org/subscriptions/JDFSL-V5N3-Bell.pdf

Quick google search also finds:
"Samsung controllers with recent firmware take an entirely different approach. Without any interaction from the OS, the Samsung firmware is able to 'read' the drive data in the background. When the drive has been idle for a period of time, the firmware reads any NTFS volume bitmaps present and automatically frees up flash blocks not allocated by that partition."

http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=7488

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