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Re:A File System All Its Own – specialized for SSDs by kalleboo on Monday April 15, 2013 @01:12AM (#5549873)
> Block-level access accounts for basically all bulk storage in /dev

Unless your home and binary directories are stored on an NFS share.

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Re:A File System All Its Own – specialized for SSDs by vy8vWJlco on Monday April 15, 2013 @01:33AM (#5549946)
Sure, but even then, on the server - where the storage medium exists, and the bytes are held - it's stored on the operator's choice of filesystem, made possible by the ubiquitous block IO interface (or the platform-specific equivalent thereof).

Edit: Network block device, iSCSI, AoE, etc... the block interface is the lifeblood of the storage area network.

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