On Friday 28 October 2011 23:11:22 Chris Tapp wrote:

Which is the 'best' filesystem to use for an embedded device that's
using a CF card?

...

Arnd Bergmann gave a talk at ELCE on flash drive performance (something he has
done quite a lot of research on); I did not attend but Darren and I spoke to
him later on, and if I recall correctly in his tests btrfs performed the best.
Hopefully the talk video will be available soon thanks to the folks at Free
Electrons; in the mean time there's an earlier article by Arnd on this topic
here:

http://lwn.net/Articles/428584/