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I like "news" articles like this. Harris takes a scientific publication, adds his own opinion while making the topic easier to understand, and cites his source.

• elif 12y ago
  Personally, i believe his armchair dismissal of FTL requires far more justification than he gives. This blog post is pure postulation that doesn't even attempt to take up the argument of the dissertation, let alone take that argument far enough to justify that title. In fact in the thesis' abstract, the proposed solution is still a layer of indirection. Instead of the FTL giving an abstracted address space, the "device" is given the responsibility of controlling wear, gc, and parallelism by dynamically reallocating blocks itself, and the filesystem picking up some more of the management stuff. I am certainly not qualified enough to read this dissertation critically enough to know if it is fundamentally sound theoretically, but as a scientist I know that it is close to meaningless until it has been experimentally tested and reviewed..