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An implementation of a log-structured file system for UNIX
Margo Seltzer,Keith Bostic,Marshall Kirk McKusick,Carl Staelin +3 more
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This paper presents a redesign and implementation of the Sprite, a log-structured file system that is more robust and integrated into the vnode interface that is superior to the 4BSD Fast File System (FFS) in a variety of benchmarks and not significantly less than FFS in any test.Abstract:
Research results [ROSE91] suggest that a log-structured file system (LFS) offers the potential for dramatically improved write performance, faster recovery time, and faster file creation and deletion than traditional UNIX file systems. This paper presents a redesign and implementation of the Sprite [ROSE91] log-structured file system that is more robust and integrated into the vnode interface [KLEI86]. Measurements show its performance to be superior to the 4BSD Fast File System (FFS) in a variety of benchmarks and not significantly less than FFS in any test. Unfortunately, an enhanced version of FFS (with read and write clustering) [MCVO91] provides comparable and sometimes superior performance to our LFS. However, LFS can be extended to provide additional functionality such as embedded transactions and versioning, not easily implemented in traditional file systems.read more
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The design and implementation of a log-structured file system
Mendel Rosenblum,John Ousterhout +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a log-structured file system called Sprite LFS is proposed, which uses a segment cleaner to compress the live information from heavily fragmented segments in order to speed up file writing and crash recovery.
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TL;DR: Observations of a prototype implementation are presented, changes in the areas of cache validation, server process structure, name translation, and low-level storage representation are motivated, and Andrews ability to scale gracefully is quantitatively demonstrated.
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The Design and Implementation of a Log-structured file system
Mendel Rosenblum,John Ousterhout +1 more
TL;DR: A prototype log-structured file system called Sprite LFS is implemented; it outperforms current Unix file systems by an order of magnitude for small-file writes while matching or exceeding Unix performance for reads and large writes.
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Principles of transaction-oriented database recovery
Theo Haerder,Andreas Reuter +1 more
TL;DR: A terminological framework is provided for describing different transactionoriented recovery schemes for database systems in a conceptual rather than an implementation-dependent way by introducing the terms materialized database, propagation strategy, and checkpoint, and a means for classifying arbitrary implementations from a unified viewpoint.
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A fast file system for UNIX
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