nRF5 SDK v17.0.2
Flash Data Storage (FDS)

The Flash Data Storage (FDS) module is a minimalistic file system for the flash storage on the chip that minimizes the risk of data corruption and simplifies your interaction with the persistent storage. It does this by organizing data in files, which consist of one or more records. The records contain the actual data and can be written, deleted, updated, or retrieved.

The concept of treating data as files provides a high level of abstraction. You can use the FDS module without detailed knowledge of the actual data format that is used internally. Instead, you can just work with files and records and use the module as a black box.

The module has been designed to provide the following benefits:

FDS uses Flash Storage (fstorage) as backend to write to flash. Flash Storage, in turn, relies on the SoftDevice to execute the write. Flash Data Storage supports synchronous read operations and asynchronous writes.

See Functionality for an explanation of the functionality that FDS provides. Storage format shows how records are stored in flash. Usage presents code examples and Writable NDEF Message Example shows how to use FDS in an application.

Example

For the usage example of this library, see Flash Data Storage Example.


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