Log-structured file systems: There's one in every SSD

I's rather see the intelligence and the file system in the drive exploited to make an object level store out of the drive. In essence it would present a (possibly very limited) file system to build real file systems on top of.

The real file system layer can then more easily handle things like striping and mirroring, which would involve writing the same block with the same identifier to multiple drives.

Maybe the object level store could support the use of directories. These could be applied in lieu of partitions.

Deleting an object would obviously free the used flash.

One advantage could be that the size of each object is preallocated, and that data that belongs in an object can be kept together by the drive. The current situation is that a large write gets spread over multiple free logical areas, and the drive may have problems to guess that these will be later deleted as a single entity.