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To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Subject: Re: Flash disks and FFS layout heuristics 
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In message <20080329213320.387805B42@mail.bitblocks.com>, Bakul Shah writes:

>Given this, does it even makes sense to use the FFS layout?

Certainly not, but until somebody writes us a filesystem that
is optimized for SSD access times, that's what people will be
using.



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