> why don't the drive vendors do this? Intel makes a compiler for their CPUs. Why isn't there a WDFS that has built-in LVM?
Given the quality of firmware in RAID controllers and disk drives and... er, everything, actually, I would really rather that they do as little as possible, unless they're going to make the firmware open source so we can fix the bugs.
Why would that be enough? Being able to replace the firmware doesn't help if you don't have something to replace it with, and part of the problem is vendors not bothering to ship bugfixes.
It wouldn't help in the short term, but in the same way that 3rd party open source community have made OpenWRT for routers, over time, people other than the OEMs could develop 3rd party firmware for SSDs. It would obviously be better if the OEMs would open source, but with enough time, open source re-implementations could be made.
Given the quality of firmware in RAID controllers and disk drives and... er, everything, actually, I would really rather that they do as little as possible, unless they're going to make the firmware open source so we can fix the bugs.