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On Mon, 08 May 2017 11:13:10 +0100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 11:09 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > You're forgetting that the SSD itself (this thread is about SSDs) also has
> > a major software component which is doing housekeeping all the time, so even
> > if the main CPU gets reset the SSD's controller may still happily be erasing
> > blocks.  
> 
> We're not really talking about SSDs at all any more; we're talking
> about real flash with real maintainable software.

It's probably a good sign that this new discussion should take place in
a different thread :-).