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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2018.18.04.178

Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Journaling File Systems with Multicores and High-Performance Flash SSDs  

Han, Hyuck (동덕여자대학교 컴퓨터학과)
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The Journal of the Korea Contents Association / v.18, no.4, 2018 , pp. 178-185 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, demands for computer systems with multicore CPUs and high-performance flash-based storage devices (i.e., flash SSD) have rapidly grown in cloud computing, surer-computing, and enterprise storage/database systems. Journaling file systems running on high-performance systems do not exploit the full I/O bandwidth of high-performance SSDs. In this article, we evaluate and analyze the performance of the Linux EXT4 file system with high-performance SSDs and multicore CPUs. The system used in this study has 72 cores and Intel NVMe SSD, and the flash SSD has performance up to 2800/1900 MB/s for sequential read/write operations. Our experimental results show that checkpointing in the EXT4 file system is a major overhead. Furthermore, we optimize the checkpointing procedure and our optimized EXT4 file system shows up to 92% better performance than the original EXT4 file system.
Keywords
Flash SSD; Multicore; Journaling File System;
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