Write Back Routine for JFFS2 Efficient I/O

Abstract. When flash memory is used as a storage in embedded systems, block level translation layer is required between conventional filesystem and flash memory chips due to its physical characteristics. A far more efficient use of it is the design of a filesystem itself without no extra layer of translation. However, since flash filesystem does not use block device layer, it cannot utilize deferred I/O although deferred I/O enhances write latency by delaying the flushing jobs. Linux operating system generally uses the write back routine for deferred I/O using kernel thread, which writes back dirty pages and buffers through the block device layer. In this paper, we design and implement efficient I/O for JFFS2 flash filesystem based on flash memory. For this, we first analyze the write procedure of JFFS2 filesystem in detail, and derive the drawback and overhead. Then, we design the flash write back routine for deferred I/O. We apply it to the Linux JFFS2 by implementing fflush and flas...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EUC
• Authors: Seung Ho Lim, Sung Hoon Baek, Joo Young Hwang, Kyu Ho Park
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Deferred I/o, EUC 2006, Filesystem, Flash Memory