NILFS
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NILFS (New Implementation of a Log-structured File System), and its newer version NILFS2, is a log-structured circular-buffer file system for Linux. Such file system structures are considered ideal for flash memory devices where overwriting data is much slower and more difficult than writing to empty memory.