NILFS: a File System to Make SSDs Scream

posted by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th Jun 2009 11:12 UTC, submitted by linuxmag

The 2.6.30 kernel is chock full of next-gen file systems. One such example is NILFS, a new log-structured file system that dramatically improves write performance.

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