Log-structured File System
A log-structured filesystem is a file system design first proposed in 1988 by John K. Ousterhout and Fred Douglis. Designed for high write throughput, all updates to data and metadata are written sequentially to a continuous stream, called a log. The design was first implemented by Ousterhout and Mendel Rosenblum.
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