Journal of Information Processing Systems

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Design of a NAND Flash Memory File System to Improve System Boot Time

  • Park, Song-Hwa (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Tae-Hoon (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Chung, Ki-Dong (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • Published : 2006.12.31
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Abstract

NAND flash memory-based embedded systems are becoming increasingly common. These embedded systems have to provide a fast boot time. In this paper, we have designed and proposed a flash file system for embedded systems that require fast booting. By using a Flash Image Area, which keeps the latest flash memory information such as types and status of all blocks, the file system mounting time can be reduced significantly. We have shown by experiments that our file system outperforms YAFFS and RFFS.

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