Mansour Shafaei and Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University
Virtual Guard (Vguard) is a track-based static mapping translation layer for shingled magnetic recording (SMR) drives. Data is written in-place by caching data from the next track in the shingling direction, allowing direct overwrite of sectors in the target track. This enables Vguard to take advantage of track-level locality, nearly eliminating cleaning for many workloads. We compare performance of Vguard to an available drive-managed SMR drive analyzed and modeled in previous research. Vguard reduces the 99.9% latency by 15× for real-world traces, and maximum latency by 32% for synthetic random write workloads.
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author = {Mansour Shafaei and Peter Desnoyers},
title = {Virtual Guard: A {Track-Based} Translation Layer for Shingled Disks},
booktitle = {9th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage 17)},
year = {2017},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage17/program/presentation/shafaei},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul
}
