Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Jan 2008 21:20 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Flash filesystem specialist Datalight Inc. will soon release a commercial Linux FFS claimed to provide 400 percent the write performance and 500 percent the mount speed of JFFS2. The company's new commercial FFS will target Linux-based mobile phones, set-top boxes, and other embedded devices.
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2005-07-07
Thom, did you not catch the error in their writeup?
"Flash filesystem (FFS) specialist Datalight Inc. will soon release a commercial Linux FFS claimed to provide 400 percent the write performance and 500 percent the mount speed of JFFS2." (emphasis mine)
This is supposed to be supported by later reporting:
"Datalight claims that in early tests of its new Linux FFS it has measured mount times of 0.44 seconds on a 56 MB NAND flash chip, compared to 2.32 seconds for JFFS2 and 0.69 seconds for YAFFS2. "
But '500 percent' of something is 5x something, which means that the new Linux FFS should be 11.6 seconds. It should in fact say that it is 500% faster.