DATALIGHT FLASH FILE FOR LINUX 400% FASTER THAN JFFS2.Datalight Inc., long-time maker of flash file systems known for fast performance and solid reliability, has announced it will release a Linux version of its flash file system platform in February. The platform, a combination of Datalight Reliance high-integrity file system and FlashFX Pro intelligent flash media manager, deliver 400% faster write performance and 5 times faster mount speeds when compared to JFFS JFFS Journaling Flash File System JFFS Junior Farmer Field School 2. First introduced in 1998, the company's flash file system products are deployed with four of the top six handset manufacturers and an impressive list of communications, military, aerospace, and industrial customers due to their performance, reliability, and time-to-market advantages. The new Linux version builds on the company's well-known out of the box support for a wide array of over 200 flash parts, including NAND (Not AND) A Boolean logic operation that is true if any single input is false. Two-input NAND gates are often used as the sole logic element on gate array chips, because all Boolean operations can be created from NAND gates. See flash memory. , NOR, fusion flash, and flash memory controllers. "Many of our customers are considering or already developing on Linux, but are disappointed with the currently available flash support," said Cortney Jacobsen, product manager for Datalight. "Our new platform gives Linux developers a reliable, versatile software solution for integrating flash memory; and even more, developers will benefit from over a decade of flash experience and our accountable support team, two things you won't get from open-source flash file systems." In addition to supporting a broad library of flash parts, Datalight Reliance and FlashFX Pro use a patented transactional architecture that guarantees reliability and improves boot speeds. Early test results have shown mount times of 0.44s on a 56 MB NAND Flash See flash memory. chip for Datalight products, compared to 2.32s for JFFS2 and 0.69s for YAFFS YAFFS Yet Another Flash Filing System 2. Dynamic Transaction Point(TM) technology gives device developers the control to tune performance for each unique use case. Test results show raw sequential write speeds of 2.56MB/s for Datalight products, compared to 0.63MB/s for JFFS2 and 1.09MB/s for YAFFS2. Incorporating Datalight products for Linux results in an impressive gain in system responsiveness when compared to the current open-source alternatives. "Our Linux products represent a new phase in the evolution of embedded Linux The Linux operating system configured and enhanced to work in a wide variety of applications, including handheld devices, network appliances, industrial machines and consumer electronics devices. The modularity of the Linux kernel makes it well suited to embedded systems. and flash memory," stated Roy Sherrill, president of Datalight. "First JFFS simply allowed Linux developers to work with flash; later YAFFS eased some of the complexities of NAND. The Datalight platform is a full-featured, proven commercial solution developed with our customer's performance, time-to-market, and quality needs in mind." In addition to the new Linux versions, Datalight flash file system products are also available on leading commercial operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , including Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. CE, Wind River VxWorks and Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. NucleusPLUS. About Datalight Datalight, Inc. headquartered just north of Seattle, Wash., develops technologies to reliably manage data in embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. devices. Datalight file system and device driver software ensures reliability, performance and flexibility and is used worldwide on many of today's most well-known devices. For more information, visit http://www.datalight.com or call 425/686-1069 or 800/221-6630. |
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