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Re:SSD: How to Optimize Your Solid State Drive for Linux by baruch on Sunday May 31, 2015 @05:13AM (#9633585)
F2FS is for direct NAND access, if you do it over an SSD that already has an FTL (flash translation layer) you'll gain nothing and only cost extra writes.
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Re:SSD: How to Optimize Your Solid State Drive for Linux by ThatPlayer on Sunday May 31, 2015 @05:33AM (#9633631)
I can't say I'm too familiar with it, but this article says F2FS specifically targets the flash translation layer.

https://lwn.net/Articles/518988/

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