Samsung Develops NAND Flash-Friendly File-System

btarunr · Oct 8, 2012, 04:53 PM

Samsung developed a new file-system that's optimized for storage devices with multiple NAND flash memory chips. Called "Flash-Friendly File-System" or F2FS, Samsung's newest creation has been submitted to the group governing the Linux kernel, and an implementation of it on derivatives such as Android is possible in the near future. F2FS is designed to take into account the "internal geometry" of NAND flash storage devices, using a log structure approach that overcomes shortcomings of file-systems designed for older spinning-disc physical media (such as floppy, hard drives, and optical discs). There's also promise for F2FS, particularly in future high-density servers using enterprise SSDs.

Source: Phoronix

james888 · Oct 8, 2012, 04:55 PM

Sounds like a step in the right direction

ColdRush · Oct 8, 2012, 10:04 PM

Interested in seeing if this brings any additional performance to the mobile phone market.

3870x2 · Oct 8, 2012, 10:15 PM

I am starting to like samsung more and more as of late.

I don't like their marketing of tablets that are akin to the Ipad (primarily their inflated price points based solely on the amount of storage capacity), but they are still cheaper and offer more.

remixedcat · Oct 8, 2012, 10:20 PM

wow wonder when MS will catch on

faramir · Oct 9, 2012, 06:29 AM

So they reinvented JFFS(2) ?

v12dock · Oct 9, 2012, 09:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by faramir

So they reinvented JFFS(2) ?

NAND support was appended to JFFS2

Prima.Vera · Oct 9, 2012, 10:19 AM

Interesting...Some more info about this compared to FatEx or NTFS would be interesting

remixedcat · Oct 9, 2012, 11:21 AM

like to see benchmarks myself as well..

faramir · Oct 9, 2012, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Prima.Vera

Interesting...Some more info about this compared to FatEx or NTFS would be interesting

You're comparing apples to oranges - neither of those was designed with peculiarities of flash in mind (block erase, limited number of program cycles, specific failure mode). I still don't understand what Samsung did there though as all of these are now covered by the drive controller, transparently from the OS.

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