Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives

Posted Feb 21, 2011 14:41 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives by bronson
Parent article: Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives

> It's a monster chicken-and-egg problem: OSes can't add support for devices that don't exist, and vendors won't bother implementing a raw interface until OSes can use it.

Agreed, and any way out of this situation would require (at least) a transition phase were some devices support either mode, letting the operating system choose.

Is such a "dual-mode" technically feasible?