Winmodem-like solid state storage

Posted Apr 16, 2009 18:53 UTC (Thu) by wmf (guest, #33791)
In reply to: Winmodem-like solid state storage by giraffedata
Parent article: Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop, day 2

Fusion io is not raw flash since the driver contains a sophisticated FTL that cannot be disabled. In theory they could release an MTD driver, but they're not going to.

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Winmodem-like solid state storage

Posted Apr 16, 2009 20:15 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link] (1 responses)

Fusion io is not raw flash since the driver contains a sophisticated FTL that cannot be disabled. In theory they could release an MTD driver, but they're not going to.

Is the driver you're talking about a Linux kernel module? An object code only one?

What is MTD?

All this has happened before...

Posted Apr 16, 2009 21:55 UTC (Thu) by wmf (guest, #33791) [Link]

Is the driver you're talking about a Linux kernel module? An object code only one?

Yep.

What is MTD?

How you access raw flash. See also UBIFS Raw flash vs. FTL devices.