Samsung's F2FS filesystem

1. A device that remaps physical erase blocks to virtual erase blocks of the same size and can write into a limited number of them. This covers 99% of the SD cards and USB sticks, as well as the majority of the existing eMMC devices. f2fs should work great (i.e. much better than any other fs we have available) on these devices, as long as the number of open erase blocks in the fs (at most 6) does not exceed the number of blocks the device can handle (vendor specific, somewhere between 1 and 20 normally) and the erase block size is known.

2. Upcoming devices that have a very simplistic log-structured file system on them. This covers one SD card I've seen (Samsung 32 GB Class 10) as well as the majority of new eMMC devices. These will work somewhat better with existing file systems for many workloads but worse in the worse-case workloads. If f2fs uses the eMMC-4.5 "large unit contexts", they will work as good or better as the first class, because that should reliably prevent getting into the slow-path that we see normally when a log-structured device gets into GC.

I can't think of a workload or hardware in which f2fs would not theoretically outperform ext3 or most other file systems we have.