Zack's Kernel News
Zack's Kernel News
Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
Simple Flash Filesystem
Dan Luedtke recently announced LanyFS – a filesystem to use with any drive you might carry on a lanyard or keychain – essentially, small flash drives. The goal was to make the filesystem so simple that it would work easily on any operating system. In this case, the lack of features was itself a feature.
Richard Weinberger and Marco Stornelli didn't see the point of such minimalism. To them, it just seemed like reinventing the wheel, because other filesystems already existed with a larger set of features. And, Alan Cox gave a link to an interesting article at http://lwn.net/Articles/428584/ that discussed the ins and outs of trying to code a flash-oriented filesystem.
Dan pointed out that the filesystem's website, at http://nonattached.net/lanyfs/, didn't have complete explanations because the project was part of his Master's thesis, and he wasn't sure how much information he was allowed to publish before submitting the work to his professors.
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