Scale and Concurrency of Massive File System Directories
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File systems store data in files and organize these files in directories. Over decades, file systems have evolved to handle increasingly large files: they distribute files across a cluster of machines, they parallelize access to these files, they decouple data access from metadata access, and hence they provide scalable file access for high-performance applications. Sadly, most cluster-wide file systems lack any sophisticated support for large directories. In fact, most cluster file systems continue to use directories that were designed for humans, not for large-scale applications. The former use-case typically involves hundreds of files and infrequent concurrent mutations in each directory, while the latter use-case consists of tens of thousands of concurrent threads that simultaneously create large numbers of small files in a single directory at very high speeds. As a result, most cluster file systems exhibit very poor file create rate in a directory either due to limited scalability from using a single centralized directory server or due to reduced concurrency from using a system-wide synchronization mechanism. This dissertation proposes a directory architecture called GIGA+ that enables a directory in a cluster file system to store millions of files and sustain hundreds of thousands of concurrent file creations every second. GIGA+ makes two contributions: a concurrent
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تاریخ انتشار 2015