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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: vm/fs meetup in september?
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:09:22 +0100
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On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 06:02:44AM -0400, peter@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:
> You need either a block translation layer, or a (swap) filesystem that
> understands flash peculiarities in order to make such a thing work.
> The standard Linux swap format will not work.

Yes, it basically needs an ftl.