Paper Info
Title
MSFSS: A Storage System for Mass Small Files
Abstract
We designed and implemented MSFSS, a scalable and flexible distributed file system for storage and retrieval of mass small files. MSFSS is a platform built upon the existing commodity file systems. It automatically stores files onto the best-fit commodity file systems according their access patterns. To avoid central bottleneck, it optimizes metadata size, separates metadata operations from file data transfer, and implements batch metadata operations. The system provides data migration, hot file caching, and replication, which are essential for large scale, reliable storage systems. It has successfully been deployed as storage system for our Web application which has about 50 TB of small files. Experimental results show that MSFSS provides high scalability and throughput in file operation services.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/CSCWD.2007.4281592
CSCWD
Keywords
Field
DocType
hot file caching,distributed file system,data migration,mass small file retrieval,network operating systems,cluster file system,cache storage,data replication,storage system,internet,web application,meta data,reliable storage system,distributed databases,data transfer,tin,distributed computing,scalability,file servers,throughput
File Control Block,Computer science,Torrent file,Unix file types,File area network,Versioning file system,Data file,File system fragmentation,Operating system,Database,Computer file
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-4244-0963-2
7
0.64
References 
Authors
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lihua Yu1163.34
Gang Chen271275.60
Wei Wang347753.58
Jinxiang Dong431165.36