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FAST 2002 Abstract
WOLF—A Novel Reordering Write Buffer to Boost the Performance of Log-Structured File
Systems
Jun Wang and Yiming Hu,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract
This paper presents the design, simulation and performance evaluation
of a novel reordering write buffer for Log-structured File Systems
(LFS). While LFS provides good write performance for small files, its
biggest problem is the high overhead from cleaning. Previous research
concentrated on improving the cleaner's efficiency after files are
written to the disk. We propose a new method that reduces the amount
of work the cleaner has to do before the data reaches the disk. Our
design sorts active and inactive data in memory into different segment
buffers and then writes them to different disk segments. This
approach forces data on the disk into a bimodal distribution. Most
data in active segments are quickly invalidated, while inactive
segments are mostly intact. Simulation results based on both
real-world and synthetic traces show that such a reordering write
buffer dramatically reduces the cleaning overhead, slashing the
system's overall write cost by up to 53%.
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