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Lightweight Application-Level Crash Consistency on Transactional Flash Storage

Authors: 

Changwoo Min, Georgia Institute of Technology; Woon-Hak Kang, Sungkyunkwan University; Taesoo Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sang-Won Lee and Young Ik Eom, Sungkyunkwan University

Abstract: 

Applications implement their own update protocols to ensure consistency of data on the file system. However, since current file systems provide only a preliminary ordering guarantee, notably fsync(), these update protocols become complex, slow, and error-prone.

We present a new file system, CFS, that supports a native interface for applications to maintain crash consistency of their data. Using CFS, applications can achieve crash consistency of data by declaring code regions that must operate atomically. By utilizing transactional flash storage (SSD/X-FTL), CFS implement a lightweight mechanism for crash consistency. Without using any heavyweight mechanisms based on redundant writes and ordering, CFS can atomically write multiple data pages and their relevant metadata to storage.

We made three technical contributions to develop a crash consistency interface with SSD/X-FTL in CFS: selective atomic propagation of dirty pages, in-memory metadata logging, and delayed deallocation. Our evaluation of five real-world applications shows that CFS-based applications significantly outperform ordering versions: 2–5x faster by reducing disk writes 1.9–4.1x and disk cache flushing 1.1–17.6x. Importantly, our porting effort is minimal: CFS requires 317 lines of modifications from 3.5 million lines of ported applications.

Changwoo Min, Georgia Institute of Technology

Woon-Hak Kang, Sungkyunkwan University

Taesoo Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology

Sang-Won Lee, Sungkyunkwan University

Young Ik Eom, Sungkyunkwan University

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {190511,
author = {Changwoo Min and Woon-Hak Kang and Taesoo Kim and Sang-Won Lee and Young Ik Eom},
title = {Lightweight {Application-Level} Crash Consistency on Transactional Flash Storage},
booktitle = {2015 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 15)},
year = {2015},
isbn = {978-1-931971-225},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
pages = {221--234},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc15/technical-session/presentation/min},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul,
}
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