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On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 18:44 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 
> Agree, an FS is a much more interesting problem. Although a good FTL is
> is something which would be nice to have.

Not really. If we had a well-maintained FTL then people would only use
it. :)

NFTL/INFTL/SAFTL are actually quite good designs as FTLs go; it's just
that we have the potential patent issues with them and nobody really
cares enough about them to make sure _our_ implementation is as good as
it should be, or even that we tie in block-deletion events from the file
system.

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dwmw2