MTD subsystem has an FTL

Posted Jan 11, 2016 9:35 UTC (Mon) by mbjorling (guest, #91144)
In reply to: MTD subsystem has an FTL by a0273324@ti.com
Parent article: Taking control of SSDs with LightNVM

MTD solves the problem of directly driving raw flash. Whereas Open-Channel SSDs have flash controllers embedded in hardware, that takes care of scheduling, driving hundred of flash chips, and provide power capacitors for durability. The host primarily handles data placement, I/O scheduling, and garbage collection and leaves everything else to the SSD controller. Making it more efficient for >1M IOPS devices.