On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Nico Williams wrote:

Seems to me that it'd be nicer to have an interface to raw flash (no
wear leveling, direct access to erasure, read, write,
read-modify-write [as an optimization]).  Then the filesystem could do
a much better job of using flash efficiently.  But a raw interface
wouldn't be a disk-compatible interface.

Do you mean like as is already done by Linux UBI and ubifs?

  http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html
  http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html

This sort of thing is already done in embedded devices.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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