Log-structured file system: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 19:29, 4 June 2009

Revision as of 20:28, 4 June 2009

Line 1:

{{this2|the general concept of log-structured file systems|the NetBSD file system|Log-structured File System (BSD)|the Linux log-structured Flash file system|LogFS}}

A '''log-structured filesystem''' is a [[file system]] design first proposed in 1988 by [[John K. Ousterhout]] and [[MendelFred RosenblumDouglis]]. Designed for high write throughput, all updates to data and metadata are written sequentially to a continuous stream, called a log. The design was first implemented by Ousterhout and [[Mendel Rosenblum]].

== Rationale ==