[clug] best filesystem for solid state drive? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Daniel Pittman]

Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 13:43, Daniel Pittman<daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>
>> Specifically, if repeated writes to a location cause early expiration of the
>> device then FAT, which has a *huge* hot spot in the FAT at the start of the
>> disk, will burn holes in very short order.
>
> I was under the impression that said CF/Flash hardware manufacturers
> realised this long ago and the chips on such devices now do some form of
> load levelling meaning most of the discussion regarding best filesystems are
> somewhat redundant?

Yes.  That was, in fact, my exact point.

Regards,
        Daniel