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Lecture

Memory Hierarchy: Operating Principles

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Flash file system

A flash file system is a designed for storing on flash memory–based storage devices. While flash file systems are closely related to file systems in general, they are optimized for the nature and characteristics of flash memory (such as to avoid write amplification), and for use in particular operating systems. While a block device layer can emulate a disk drive so that a general-purpose file system can be used on a flash-based storage device, this is suboptimal for several reasons: Erasing blocks: flash memory blocks have to be explicitly erased before they can be written to.