GeckoFTL: Scalable Flash Translation Techniques For Very Large Flash Devices

Summary: GeckoFTL replaces the RAM-heavy Page Validity Bitmap with a log-structured, page-associative metadata store (Logarithmic Gecko) to scale FTL metadata on huge flash. Log-structure favors updates over GC lookups, achieving ~95% space reduction and ~51% faster recovery with ~98% lower internal IO than the flash-PVB baseline. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5246
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 4.7199619e-05
Overall Rank: 7,472 | 48.02%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2915219

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563	Tree Indexing on Solid State Drives	2010	VLDB	0.00020031827
1,117	Cache-Oblivious String B-trees	2006	PODS	0.00013882205
1,295	uFLIP: Understanding Flash IO Patterns	2009	CIDR	0.00012758832
1,338	Query Processing on Smart SSDs: Opportunities and Challenges	2013	SIGMOD	0.00012493384
2,387	LazyFTL: A Page-level Flash Translation Layer Optimized for NAND Flash Memory	2011	SIGMOD	8.9175191e-05
3,362	Improving Flash Write Performance by Using Update Frequency	2013	VLDB	7.1734963e-05
13,445	EagleTree: Exploring the Design Space of SSD-Based Algorithms	2013	VLDB	-

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