Comments on: New Linux flash filesystem offers 4X speed

By: brunis

brunis — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:00:04 +0000

Hey BSD Fan.. Amiga’s Fast File System was FFS, could you ask the Berkeley guys to be more creative?

I’m inclined to write .. FFS!!

By: Cortney

Cortney — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:34:26 +0000

Hello BSD fan, I am one of the product managers for Datalight and wanted to provide some additional information.

The term FFS was used by deviceguru when they re-wrote our press release. We are aware of Berkeley FFS and our press release hence does not use that term (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080123/aqw150.html?.v=23).

The name of our products are “Reliance” – the transactional file system – and “FlashFX Pro” – the flash media manager. When used together, they comprise the same functionality of a standard “flash file system,” or, FFS.

Roald, regarding the question about open souce. You are right, we are not statically linked to the kernel. We use kernel loadable modules.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at cortney.jacobsen@datalight.com.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:28:18 +0000

Hope Mandriva can make use of this for their Flash Drive..

By: Roald Amundsen

Roald Amundsen — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:18:23 +0000

Uh, not open source? They plan to use FUSE, then?

By: Rohan

Rohan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:51:57 +0000

Datalight’s website does not seem to contain the term “FFS” at all; it is used in this article to mean “flash filesystem”.

By: BSDfan

BSDfan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:23:37 +0000

Are they kidding? FFS? That’s the name used by BSD for Berkeley’s Fast File System.

Talk about a bunch of idiots… couldn’t they be a bit more creative?

By: mangoo

mangoo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:28:43 +0000

Have you seen LogFS? It’s yet another Linux flash system (can be also used on normal block devices, though) – see http://logfs.org