In a journaling file system, changes to files and directories are first recorded in the journal. This journal acts as a buffer, ensuring that file system operations are either completed or undone in ...

A file system that contains its own recovery capability in the event of a failure. In a journaling file system, the information about the changes is recorded in a separate log (the journal) before the ...

Samsung codesmith Jaegeuk Kim has submitted a new "flash-friendly" file system to the Linux Kernel tree. The new file system, coined F2FS (flash-friendly file system), is actually open source and is ...