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by Moral_ 2716 days ago
Those flash translation layers on the SSDs are generally used to maintain QoS/and do wear leveling, block management etc.

I don't think we'll see file systems go away, but what we may see is more knowledge pushed into the file system, instead of keeping it down in the controller.

We have started to see that with the advent of LightNVM which exposes a more RAW API into the drive and the FTL is maintained in the kernel. The current "generic" implementation of the LightNVM FTL is called pblk:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/light...