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Re:A File System All Its Own – specialized for SSDs by Sami_Lehtinen on Monday April 15, 2013 @04:24AM (#5550375)
Don't you remember MFM and RLL with CHS addressing? Disk controller wasn't mapping bad blocks out, it was the file system.
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Re:A File System All Its Own – specialized for SSDs by baruch on Monday April 15, 2013 @04:27AM (#5550382)
Indeed, but life then was different, the CPU was weaker and there was a good intention with pushing everything to the disk. The intention is still good but it is now possible to do things better in a different way.
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