• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.79-90
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• 2019

Maximizing energy efficiency minimizes the energy consumption of computation, storage and communications required for IT services, resulting in economic and environmental benefits. Recent advancement of flash and next generation non-volatile memory technology and price decrease of those memories have led to the rise of so-called AFA (All-Flash Array) storage devices made of flash or next generation non-volatile memory. Currently, the AFA devices are rapidly replacing traditional storages in the high-performance servers due to their fast input/output characteristics. However, it is not well known how effective the energy efficiency of the AFA devices in the real world. This paper shows input/output performance and power consumption of the AFA devices measured on the Linux XFS file system via experiments and discusses energy efficiency of the AFA devices in the real world.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.88-95
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• 2010

As the development of IT technologies, storages stored very sensitive data which should not be damaged, too. It increased the importance of data backup and makes the time need to backup data important issues. Snapshot is one of the backup technologies which needs short downtime to maintain consistency of data during backup data. In this paper, we studied two kinds of snapshots, local file system based snapshot and network file system based snapshot. In the local file system based snapshot part, we propose the PSnap which is a snapshot library for non-snapshot file system as like Ext2, Ext3 and XFS. In another part, network file system based snapshot, we propose the GlorySnap which snapshot utilities for GloryFS is a distributed file system was made by ETRI.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.193-196
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• 2006

파일 시스템의 안정성에 문제가 생긴 경우, 파일 시스템의 동작이 중단되어 수정 중이던 데이터가 손실되거나 기존 데이터의 복구가 불가능하게 되는 상황이 발생 할 수 있다. 데이터의 종류에는 파일의 데이터와 같이 데이터 자체가 중요한 내용을 담고 있는 것과 파일의 데이터를 관리하기 위한 정보를 담고 있는 데이터가 있는데 후자를 메타데이터라고 한다. 단순히 파일의 데이터가 손실된 경우에 약간의 데이터 손실이 발생할 수는 있지만, 파일 시스템은 정상적으로 동작 할 수 있다. 하지만 메타데이터가 손상된 경우에는 파일 시스템이 볼륨에 접근조차 할 수 없게 되어 볼륨 내의 모든 파일을 접근할 수 없게 된다. 이러한 문제점들을 극복하기 위해 DualFS [8], log-structured 파일 시스템 [10], XFS [9] 등의 다양한 저널링 파일 시스템들이 제안되었다. 그 중 Ext$_3$ 파일 시스템은 가장 안정적이고 치명적인 문제점이 없는 것으로 알려져 있다.[7] 하지만 Ext$_3$ 파일 시스템에서 기본적으로 사용되고 있는 ordered mode 저널링은 메타데이터의 복사가 이루어져야 하기 때문에 속력의 저하가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 ordered mode의 메타데이터의 복사 작업이 필요 없는 개선된 ordered mode 저널링을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.9
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• pp.54-62
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• 2015

Although NAND flash-based SSD (Solid-State Drive) provides superior performance in comparison to HDD (Hard Disk Drive), it has a major drawback in write endurance. As a result, the lifetime of SSD is determined by the workload and thus it becomes a big challenge in current technology trend of such as the shifting from SLC (Single Level Cell) to MLC (Multi Level cell) and even TLC (Triple Level Cell). Most previous studies have dealt with wear-leveling or improving SSD lifetime regarding hardware architecture. In this paper, we propose the optimal configuration of host I/O stack focusing on file system, I/O scheduler, and link power management using JEDEC enterprise workloads in terms of WAF (Write Amplification Factor) which represents the efficiency perspective of SSD life time especially for host write processing into flash memory. Experimental analysis shows that the optimum configuration of I/O stack for the perspective of SSD lifetime is MinPower-Dead-XFS which prolongs the lifetime of SSD approximately 2.6 times in comparison with MaxPower-Cfq-Ext4, the best performance combination. Though the performance was reduced by 13%, this contributions demonstrates a considerable aspect of SSD lifetime in relation to I/O stack optimization.