Storage virtualization using a block-device file system

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Storage virtualization using a block-device file system

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ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review archive
Volume 42 , Issue 1 (January 2008) table of contents

SESSION: SYSTOR 2007 table of contents

Pages 119-126

Year of Publication: 2008

ISSN:0163-5980

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Sorin Faibish	EMC Corporation
Stephen Fridella	EMC Corporation
Peter Bixby	EMC Corporation
Uday Gupta	EMC Corporation

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The design and organization of modern file systems has been traditionally driven by practical considerations related to the physical properties of computer disks Storage virtualization makes such considerations largely irrelevant, and file-system designs based on them perform sub-optimally in a virtual storage environment. One important example of this phenomenon is the relationship between disk seek times and the placement and organization of file system meta-data. In this paper we show that traditional approaches to organizing meta-data in file systems are closely related to assumptions about the physical properties of disks and that for this reason traditional file systems fail to materialize the full benefits of storage virtualization. We go on to propose a different file system organization of data and meta-data designed to exploit the power of virtualized storage.

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