LFCS: Preparing Linux for nonvolatile memory devices

LFCS: Preparing Linux for nonvolatile memory devices

Here is a short paper that discusses implications of NVM on operating system design from a relatively high level: Operating System Implications of Fast, Cheap, Non-Volatile Memory (PDF)

This article is the first I've read anywhere that mentions write lifetime being a potential issue with the myriad promised new technologies. I guess the dream of unified single level store, execute-in-place, edit-in-place and suchlike might be relegated for a few more decades yet.