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CosaFS: A Cooperative Shingle-Aware File System

CosaFS: A Cooperative Shingle-Aware File System CosaFS: A Cooperative Shingle-Aware File System LINGFANG ZENG and ZEHAO ZHANG, Huazhong University of Science and Technology YANG WANG, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences DANG FENG, Huazhong University of Science and Technology KENNETH B. KENT, University of New Brunswick In this article, we design and implement a cooperative shingle-aware file system, called CosaFS, on heterogeneous storage devices that mix solid-state drives (SSDs) and shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to improve the overall performance of storage systems. The basic idea of CosaFS is to classify objects as hot or cold objects based on a proposed Lookahead with Recency Weight scheme. If an object is identified as a hot (small) object, then it will be served by SSD. Otherwise, cold (large) objects are stored on SMR. For an SMR, large objects can be accessed in large sequential blocks, rendering the performance of their accesses comparable with that of accessing the same large sequential blocks as if they were stored on a hard drive. Small objects, such as inodes and directories, are stored on the SSD where œseeks  for such objects are nearly free. With thorough empirical studies, we demonstrate that CosaFS, as a cooperative shingle-aware http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) Association for Computing Machinery

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Association for Computing Machinery
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Copyright © 2017 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
1553-3077
DOI
10.1145/3149482
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Abstract

CosaFS: A Cooperative Shingle-Aware File System LINGFANG ZENG and ZEHAO ZHANG, Huazhong University of Science and Technology YANG WANG, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences DANG FENG, Huazhong University of Science and Technology KENNETH B. KENT, University of New Brunswick In this article, we design and implement a cooperative shingle-aware file system, called CosaFS, on heterogeneous storage devices that mix solid-state drives (SSDs) and shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to improve the overall performance of storage systems. The basic idea of CosaFS is to classify objects as hot or cold objects based on a proposed Lookahead with Recency Weight scheme. If an object is identified as a hot (small) object, then it will be served by SSD. Otherwise, cold (large) objects are stored on SMR. For an SMR, large objects can be accessed in large sequential blocks, rendering the performance of their accesses comparable with that of accessing the same large sequential blocks as if they were stored on a hard drive. Small objects, such as inodes and directories, are stored on the SSD where œseeks  for such objects are nearly free. With thorough empirical studies, we demonstrate that CosaFS, as a cooperative shingle-aware

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ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Nov 17, 2017

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