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    Phoronix: F2FS File-System Gaining Multiple Device Support

    The lead developer of the Flash-Friendly File-System, Jaegeuk Kim, has published a patch implementing multiple device support for F2FS...

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  • #2
    NICE! but still waiting for COW-Support

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    • #3
      Would solve the issues with microSD card slots on stuff like Android.

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      • #4
        Would it be accurate to call this JBOD RAID?

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        • #5
          I have the urge to call the F2FS the F3S or if File-system was one word simply F3

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          • #6
            Originally posted by xeekei View Post
            Would solve the issues with microSD card slots on stuff like Android.
            Neah, I think Google messed that up for good when they added the "adopt" feature.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by xeekei View Post
              Would solve the issues with microSD card slots on stuff like Android.
              Slow ports are slow ports so don't expect a magic bullet. It might help if you make a single volume with internal and external partitions (data + some partition in sdcard) though.

              The most important part is that it would allow people to easily enlarge the data partition in the external SD without doing ROM modifications (if the kernel has f2fs driver, anyway), which is a good thing.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by flubba86 View Post
                Would it be accurate to call this JBOD RAID?
                Dunno, it depends on how it deals with data. If loss of a disk means only the data on it is lost (no striping no mirroring) then it can be called Union mount or Union filesystem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_mount

                If it is storing data chunks across all disks it might be a RAID 0 too.

                If you know more of how it allocates data around, please tell.

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                • #9
                  think its more on the lines of RAID0 except it knows more abt flash media and tries to optimise IO.

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                  • #10
                    I'm still waiting to be able to boot my Linux distro from an F2FS partition

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