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Introducing YAFFS, the first NAND-specific flash file system (LinuxDevices)
LinuxDevices.com introduces
YAFFS (yet another flash file system), an open source project working
on a NAND-specific flash file system. "Hard disks are not a viable
storage option for many embedded and handheld systems because they are too
big, too fragile and use too much power. For some years now, people have
been using common-old NOR flash for file system storage. JFFS and JFFS2 do
an excellent job of this for Linux. For storage applications NOR flash is
not that great because it is not very dense (i.e. not much storage per
chip), is costly and is slow to write. NAND flash, on the other hand, is
low cost, dense, and writes fast; but it has other limitations."
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