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A '''log-structured filesystem''' is a [[file system]] designghdesign first proposed by [[John K. Ousterhout]] and [[Fred Douglis]]. It writes data to the file system in a sequential "log" format, as opposed to the normal scattered blocks format.

== Rationale ==