Flash Translation Layer

Posted Oct 5, 2009 14:10 UTC (Mon) by tmassey (guest, #52228)
In reply to: Flash Translation Layer by flash-translation-layer
Parent article: Log-structured file systems: There's one in every SSD

Did someone just create an account to spam LWN with? I don't think I've ever seen this before. Given the name of the account and the content of the message, it sure seems so...

Wow, that's dedication to marketing your product! At least it's on-topic--better than V1@GR@ blog spamming! :)

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Flash Translation Layer

Posted Oct 5, 2009 23:39 UTC (Mon) by flash-translation-layer (guest, #61101) [Link] (1 responses)

I was developing SSDs and flash-based file system, so I am very interested in this article.

SSD is currently a small but growing industry, there are many flash-based devices (SSDs, SD cards, USB drives) are designed & manufactured in China, also contains the IC controllers.

Therefore I want this article reader to know the flash-based file system usage situation.

Flash Translation Layer

Posted Oct 6, 2009 0:13 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Your "use our product" might have worked better if you were providing raw
flash for the semi-mass-market (i.e. LWN readers, who are willing to pay
over the odds, but not hugely).

However, you're providing... an apparently closed-source FTL. The very
thing that the article you followed up to is (rightly) criticising. (Of
course if it *is* open source, well, that's nicer but we still need raw
flash to use it with.)

Pardon me for thinking that you didn't read it very carefully.