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**Poutnik**

In article ,
says...
Microsoft has written Readyboost to write to the flash memory in such a way
as to even out the wear. Expect about 10 years of constant use before the
number of write cycles becomes limited. ......

I would not say it is work of Microsoft.

Whatever FileSystem is flash memory formatted for,
internally it uses its own specialized filesystem for flash devices
( there are such ones )
or at least modified version of common filesystem.

It contains integrated memory controller chip to manage it.

The purpose is to manage "wear leveling" to get all sectors tired in the
same/similar speed. Some areas have extra backups.

Without it e.g. FAT32 File allocation table area would get damaged soon.