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Future storage technologies and Linux

Future storage technologies and Linux

Posted Apr 17, 2011 20:01 UTC (Sun) by landley (guest, #6789)
Parent article: Future storage technologies and Linux

Is it just me or does "large block SMR" sound a whole lot like flash? As in the erase block size is enormous and you want a log structured filesystem, of which we now have bunches?

A 32 meg block size for 64 gig flash sounds pretty reasonable, actually...


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