F3S, the new, safe file system from F&S

Single Board Computer with WindowsCE generally use the file system FAT32. This file system is operating with allocation tables (FAT). If there occurs an electrical power outage during a write cycle the FAT and also the file itself can be damaged (inconsistent state). In last resort it’s necessary to reformat the storage. With the file system TFAT from Microsoft you can avoid damaging the allocation table but not the data within a file itself.

F&S has developed the Failsafe Flash File System (F3S) which is designed for NAND-Flash-Memories especially. In contrary to other file systems it is able to guaranty a reliability in transaction on file-level. The user has the option to define the point of validation of modified data. In easiest case by closing the file-handle.

In this way important data can be stored permanently and safely. 

 

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