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The in-memory cache layer is crucial in building a file system. Crash-consistency is highly desirable for applications running on the file system, ensuring that data is written in an all-or-none fashion during unexpected system failures or crashes. ...

Acquiring data from scientific simulations for analytical purposes is inherently challenging due to the complex and irregularly shaped regions within which the data resides, particularly when using self-describing data formats. The process of region-...

Data deduplication technology has gained popularity in modern file systems due to its ability to eliminate redundant writes and improve storage space efficiency. In recent years, the flash-friendly file system (F2FS) has been widely adopted in flash ...

Costly synchronous write---a.k.a., fsync()---is a common approach to preserve the storage order of data. Android smart-phones use No-Barrier by default to improve fsync() performance. Recently, Barrier-Enabled IO Stack (BEIOS) provides an efficient order-...

Aim to repair EXFAT file system, a file system reconstruction algorithm based on cluster size assumption and computational verification is proposed. Firstly, an experimental verification study is conducted on the key BPB parameters such as cluster ...

Interlaced Magnetic Recording (IMR) is an emerging recording technology for hard-disk drives (HDDs) that provides larger storage capacity at a lower cost. By partially overlapping (interlacing) each bottom track with two adjacent top tracks, IMR-based ...

While the state-of-the-art runtime zone-reset algorithm of the ZenFS in RocksDB is optimized for the performance of Zone Namespace (ZNS) SSDs, it does not take into account the lifetime constraint of ZNS SSDs. To address this issue, we present FAR, a ...

As we move towards hyper-converged cloud solutions, the efficiency and overheads of distributed file systems at the cloud tenant side (i.e., client) become of paramount importance. Often, the clientside driver of a cloud file system is complex and CPU ...

Modern NVMe SSDs and RDMA networks provide dramatically higher bandwidth and concurrency. Existing networked storage systems (e.g., NVMe over Fabrics) fail to fully exploit these new devices due to inefficient storage ordering guarantees. Severe ...

Non-volatile memories (NVMs) provide lower latency and higher bandwidth than block devices. Besides, NVMs are byte-addressable and provide persistence that can be used as memory-level storage devices (non-volatile main memory, NVMM). These ...

This article presents crash-consistent Non-Volatile Memory Express (ccNVMe), a novel extension of the NVMe that defines how host software communicates with the non-volatile memory (e.g., solid-state drive) across a PCI Express bus and RDMA-capable ...

In cloud computing environments, reliable and secure data storage service plays a more and more important role in many data-intensive applications. However, existing storage systems either fail to provide them or provide them in a cost-ineffective manner. ...

Persistent byte-addressable memory (PM) is poised to become prevalent in future computer systems. PMs are significantly faster than disk storage, and accesses to PMs are governed by the Memory Management Unit (MMU) just as accesses with volatile RAM. ...

In parallel and distributed file systems, caching can improve data performance and metadata operations. Currently, most distributed file systems adopt a write-back data cache for performance and a write-through metadata cache for simplifying ...

In the FAT32 file system, a null byte in the metadata means that there is no file or folder. Since the metadata are stored consecutively, if the first byte of a metadata field is null, the operating system does not read data anymore. In this study, we ...

Big data applications, such as recommendation system and social network, often generate a huge number of fine-grained reads to the storage. Block-oriented storage devices tend to suffer from these fine-grained read operations in terms of I/O traffic as ...

This work presents NSDF-FUSE, a testbed for evaluating settings and performance of FUSE-based file systems on top of S3-compatible object storage; the testbed is part of a suite of services from the National Science Data Fabric (NSDF) project (an NSF-...

Despite the existence of file systems tailored for flash and over a decade of research into flash file systems, this paper shows that no single Linux file system performs consistently well on a commodity SSD across different workloads. We define a ...

Block-based file systems, such as Btrfs, utilize the copy-on-write (CoW) mechanism to guarantee data consistency on solid-state drives (SSDs). Open-channel SSD provides opportunities for in-depth optimization of block-based file systems. However, ...

Solid State Devices (SSDs) have been widely adopted in containerized cloud platforms as they provide parallel and high-speed data accesses for critical data-intensive applications. Unfortunately, the I/O stack of the physical host overlooks the layered ...