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== Limited-life media ==
 
More recently, log-structured file systems have been used on media like [[flash memory]] and [[CD-RW]] for a entirely different reasons. These degrade slowly as they are written to and have a limited number of erase/write cycles.
 
A log-structured file system such as [[Universal Disk Format|UDF]] or [[JFFS2]] provides better [[wear levelling]] on such storage media because it does not update data structures in-place as frequently as conventional file systems do.