From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dongjun Shin Subject: Re: ssd optimised mode Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:35:14 +0900 Message-ID: <7fe698080902231635j694edd2ew602789ff2dda4e26@mail.gmail.com> References: <934e480c0902200326m7647d87cq28bfa1675ef012f4@mail.gmail.com> <20090220160134.GE24890@unused.rdu.redhat.com> <1235147425.13249.16.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> <3a7f57190902211707h37ff1478vdc0e5ffff66fa4da@mail.gmail.com> <1235399593.11205.15.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> <3a7f57190902231616h15578ceal968c190b10a40157@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitri Nikulin Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3a7f57190902231616h15578ceal968c190b10a40157@mail.gmail.com> List-ID: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Dmitri Nikulin wrote: > > Already SanDisk are offering a proprietary "Extreme FFS" (perhaps even > based on Unix FFS) for Windows Vista only. > http://www.technewsworld.com/story/65072.html?wlc=1235097496&wlc=1235434234 > It is not clear whether this is purely a filesystem which could work > on any SSD, but I think it is much more likely it has an FTL bypass > that lets it get higher performance than any FTLed filesystem. It > is proprietary from the ground up and products like these could undo > the decades of standardisation and interoperability that have made > hard disks and their controllers a commodity. > I heard that ExtremeFFS is a firmware or FTL technology although it sounds like a filesystem. -- Dongjun