SAFS

File Format
Name	SAFS
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Filesystem SAFS

SAFS is a user space filesystem for use within SSD arrays under NUMA system architecture. It is a flat filesystem without subdirectories. Files are partitioned into parts stored as separate files in the underlying filesystems of the drives.

Links

• SAFS user manual
• Wikipedia: Non-uniform memory access (NUMA)
• SSD RAID array: What it is and how to use it
• [https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast15/fast15-paper-zheng.pdf FlashGraph: Processing Billion-Node Graphs

on an Array of Commodity SSDs]