Re: Initial report on F2FS filesystem performance

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Oct 21 2012 - 06:35:22 EST


Hi!

> >> This is a brief summary of our initial filesystem performance study of f2fs against existing two filesystems in linux: EXT4, NILFS2, and f2fs.
> >>
> >
> > Hmm, flashes are actually optimized for VFAT, right? Can you compare
> > against that?
> >
>
> Do you mean SD-cards? Because, as I can understand, "raw" flash (I mean NAND chip) hasn't any special filesystem-related optimization. Moreover, as I know, this optimization takes place in the begin of device (because FAT metadata is placed in the volume's begin). But if you have several partition on a device then you haven't any optimizations for second and next FAT partitions. So, in-place modified metadata of f2fs is placed in the begin of the volume also.
>
> Or, maybe, do you mean some another special optimization for VFAT?
>

I meant SD-card, sorry. Compare factory-formatted VFAT on SD card with
f2fs running on the same partition.

Pavel
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