Supporting filesystems in persistent memory

Posted Sep 5, 2014 13:24 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Supporting filesystems in persistent memory by dgc
Parent article: Supporting filesystems in persistent memory

> Like flash based SSDs before NVRAM, the architectural structure is not very different to storage we've been using for 50 years.

... except SSDs and flash memory generally speaking are all elaborated smoke and mirrors especially designed to maintain backward compatibility. Very fast smoke and mirrors in the case of SSDs but still. So, probably not a great example :-)

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/ins...

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554 (On Hacking MicroSD Cards)

Supporting filesystems in persistent memory

Posted May 19, 2015 14:22 UTC (Tue) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976) [Link]

This is changing. PCIe and NVMe SSDs are already on the market without all the cruft of backward compatibility.