Samsung introduces new flash-friendly filesystem

  By Thom Holwerda, based on submission by robojerk - Posted on 2012-10-06 13:59:42 UTC at http://OSNews.com

"F2FS is a new file system [https://lwn.net/Articles/518718/] carefully designed for the NAND flash memory-based storage devices. We chose a log structure file system approach, but we tried to adapt it to the new form of storage. Also we remedy some known issues of the very old log structured file system, such as snowball effect of wandering tree and high cleaning overhead."

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