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LogFS, A Scalable Flash Filesystem

“Jörn Engel posted the sixth version of patches introducing
his new LogFS filesystem for flash devices to the Linux kernel. He
highlighted some areas of the code that need some more work, and
cc’d the appropriate people for further review. Regarding LogFS
itself, he noted that one of its big advantages compared to other
solutions was improved mount time and reduced memory consumption
compared to other solutions, “LogFS has an on-medium tree, fairly
similar to Ext2 in structure, so mount times are O(1)…”

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