Title: LyraFILE: a component-based VFAT file system for embedded systems

Authors: Mei-Ling Chiang, Ching-Ju Lo

Addresses: Department of Information Management, National Chi-Nan University, Puli, Taiwan, ROC. ' Department of Information Management, National Chi-Nan University, Puli, Taiwan, ROC

Abstract: We have designed and implemented a component-based VFAT file system, LyraFILE. To support the basic VFAT operations, we reused some codes from the Linux VFAT file system. In order for it to operate efficiently in resource-limited embedded systems, some enhancements are made especially for performance improvement and memory saving. In addition, LyraFILE contains multiple components that can be separately configured or replaced for adapting into target embedded environments, changing file system specific features, or performance or memory issues. The experience of this study can serve as a reference for embedding Linux file systems into a target system that needs storage capability.

Keywords: embedded systems; Linux file systems; VFAT; performance improvement; memory saving; software components; storage capability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJES.2006.014860

International Journal of Embedded Systems, 2006 Vol.2 No.3/4, pp.248 - 259

Published online: 12 Aug 2007 *

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