I finally decided to write the 33 lines of code and automate my testing somewhat. Now I get a nightly email showing that LogFS is currently bug-free. Well, obviously it cannot be bug-free - what software ever is? - but at least my GC-heavy testcase runs perfectly for 256 iterations.

If anyone wants to set things up as well, have a look here and here. You have to install libunwind first, which probably requires the usual ./configure, make & make install procedure since your distribusion doesn't ship it (mine didn't). Take about 500MB of disk, most of which goes to a copy of the Linux kernel.

I've never been much of a writer, but some people keep prodding me. So let's try and start a blog and see if it survives for more than a month.

The blog is called Solid State Storage for several reasons:
1. I have wanted that stuff in my private machine for nearly a decade now.
2. I have written my own filesystem to support such devices.
3. I strongly disagree with the industry-standard approach of SSD.
4. http://lwn.net/Articles/378407/ asked me to pick a better name.

So assuming this blog survives, it should contain articles about non-mechanical storage devices (currently that practically always spells flash) and their handling. And more often than not, it will explain how these devices should behave, as opposed to buying the latest marketing panacea and explaining why company X has finally solved all your marital problems with their new product.