A page padding method for fragmented flash storage

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4705 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 164-177

  Kim, Hyojun ^a   Kim, Jin Hyuk ^b   Choi, ShinHo ^a   Jung, HyunRyong ^a   Jung, JaeGyu ^a  

^a SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^b Flash Software Group of Samsung Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Disk fragmentation; Flash memory; Flash translation layer

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HARD DISK STORAGE; OPTIMIZATION; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

DISK FRAGMENTATION; FLASH TRANSLATION LAYERS;

FLASH MEMORY;

EID: 38049024525     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74472-6_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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