Samsung introduces new flash-friendly filesystem

By Thom Holwerda, submitted by robojerk on 2012-10-06 13:59:42

"F2FS is a new file system 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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