Any filesystem can be used for SSD, but some are better suited due to SSD's hardware characteristic, among which is a lack of a moving read/write head. so which are the FS specially written to take advantage of this feature? http://www.cdrlabs.com/News/sandisk-introduces-advanced-flash-file-system-for-solid-state-drives.html sandisk have introduced self-claimed fastest FS for SSD. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10028216-64.html here IBM is testing 4TB SSD. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/16/bitmicro_altima_tb_ssd/ Here is a 1.6TB SSD. http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8025 Here is Samsung 512G SSD. And this Oct2008 article: Block layer: solid-state storage, timeouts, affinity, and more http://lwn.net/Articles/303270/ in general, and the next: http://lwn.net/Articles/293658/ highlighted the special feature of SSD in particular. -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
