• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.45-51
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• 2019

Modern file systems have journaling mechanism to maintain their stored state consistently even under unexpected system crashes or disasters. However, the journaling makes I/O throughput lower. This performance degradation comes from the ordering mechanism between the data buffer and metadata buffer and two-staged buffer writing. Especially, if the data buffer and metadata buffer are journalled at the same time, then it incurs significant performance degradation due to the two-staged writing. That shows the trade-off relation-ship between I/O performance and system reliability. In this paper, we propose RFJ: a reliable and fast jour-naling mechanism to deal with this trade-off relationship. We propose an ordering enforced writeback journaling mode and selective journaling mechanism. The Ordering enforced writeback journaling mode achieves low I/O latency and the selective journaling mechanism achieves high reliability. The experimental result shows that the performance of RFJ is almost 5x faster than the journal mode of Ext3 file system but it still supports the same reliability with the journal mode.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.445-446
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• 2021

Union file system is a technology that can be used as a single file system by integrating various files and directories. It has the advantage of maintaining the source file/directory used for integration, so it is used in many applications like container platform. When using the union file system, the user accesses the write-able layer, to which the security technology provided by the operating system can be applied. However, there is a disadvantage in that it is difficult to apply a separate security technology to the source file and directory used to create the union file system. In this study, we intend to propose an access control mechanism to deny security threats to source file/directory that may occur when using the union file system. In order to verify the effectiveness of the access control mechanism, it was confirmed that the access control mechanism proposed in this study can protect the source file/directory while maintaining the advantages of the union file system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.21-30
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• 2011

In the global IT market, a lot of issues for responding to various environmental regulations emerged. In case of the data centers, it is consuming huge amounts of energy to maintain. So there have been various technical attempts as Consolidation, Virtualization, Optimization to efficiently manage energy and data storage to fix the problems. In this paper, we propose a new RAID(Redundant Array of Independent Disks) mechanism which is differing the intensity of power consumption and works to provide data protection and disaster recovery(backup, mirroring etc.) to stratify multiple volumes. G-RAID minimize the power consumption and the lower of I/O performance by selecting the volume depending on the frequency of data access while classifying the power consumption between volumes in storage system. Also, it is possible that a filesystem and block map information of G-RAID is processed by basic unit which is group located in a row for the blocks to work efficiently and can minimize the performance degradation of block mapping load by the access frequency in each groups. As a result, we obtained to elevate a little bit of response time caused by block relocation work, but showed the decrease of power consumption by 38%.