On Mon, 08 May 2017 11:13:10 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 11:09 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > You're forgetting that the SSD itself (this thread is about SSDs) also has > > a major software component which is doing housekeeping all the time, so even > > if the main CPU gets reset the SSD's controller may still happily be erasing > > blocks. > > We're not really talking about SSDs at all any more; we're talking > about real flash with real maintainable software. It's probably a good sign that this new discussion should take place in a different thread :-).