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The design of littlefs

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

The article explains the design of littlefs, a compact, power-loss resilient filesystem for microcontrollers. It covers two-block metadata pairs for atomic updates, CTZ skip-lists for efficient data structures, a lookahead-based block allocator, and wear leveling, with notes on directory structures and a global state mechanism for complex operations.

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