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Cost-effectiveness is one of the most critical factors in the development of low-end embedded systems. The use of a compressed filesystem is a simple but effective solution for achieving such cost-effectiveness. However, since conventional compressed filesystems are designed for disk-like devices and relatively abundant computing resources, they are not suitable for low-end embedded systems with small amount of memory and NAND flash-based storage. This paper presents a memory-efficient compressed filesystem designed for low-end embedded systems and NAND flash memory. Experiments by prototype implementation show that the proposed filesystem outperforms conventional ones in terms of memory-efficiency and I/O performance.
This work has been supported by the research fund of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
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Hyun, S., Ahn, S., Lee, S., Bahn, H., Koh, K. (2007). Memory-Efficient Compressed Filesystem Architecture for NAND Flash-Based Embedded Systems. In: Gervasi, O., Gavrilova, M.L. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2007. ICCSA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4705. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74472-6_20
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