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If the firmware has severe bugs (which is incredibly common with all firmware) and is hard to debug and patch, the performance is irrelevant. Not to mention tha
by cyphar 7y ago
If the firmware has severe bugs (which is incredibly common with all firmware) and is hard to debug and patch, the performance is irrelevant. Not to mention that there are many examples of existing firmware bugs where the performance of "simple" hard drives tanked -- adding more code to already-buggy firmware that has a history of performance problems is unlikely to improve performance (let alone reliability).
- Veedrac 7y agoThis is a rather different claim to saying there wouldn't be a benefit. I'm not saying filesystem accelerator SSDs would necessarily be in sum a good thing, just that in principle it seems like the kind of thing that should perform better than today's abstractions.