Disclosed is a method for managing logical block write requests for a flash drive. The method includes receiving a logical block write request from a file system; assigning a category to the logical block; and generating at least three writes from the logical block write request, a first write writes the logical block to an Erasure Unit (EU) according to the category assigned to each logical block, a second write inserts a Block Mapping Table (BMT) update entry to a BMT update log, and a third write commits the BMT update entry to an on-disk BMT, wherein the first and second writes are performed synchronously and the third write is performed asynchronously and in a batched fashion.