Paper Info
Title
The MOSIX Direct File System Access Method for Supporting Scalable Cluster File Systems
Abstract
MOSIX is a cluster management system that supports preemptive process migration. This paper presents the MOSIX Direct File System Access (DFSA), a provision that can improve the performance of cluster file systems by allowing a migrated process to directly access files in its current location. This capability, when combined with an appropriate file system, could substantially increase the I/O performance and reduce the network congestion by migrating an I/O intensive process to a file server rather than the traditional way of bringing the file's data to the process. DFSA is suitable for clusters that manage a pool of shared disks among multiple machines. With DFSA, it is possible to migrate parallel processes from a client node to file servers for parallel access to different files. Any consistent file system can be adjusted to work with DFSA. To test its performance, we developed the MOSIX File-System (MFS) which allows consistent parallel operations on different files. The paper describes DFSA and presents the performance of MFS with and without DFSA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1023/B:CLUS.0000018563.68085.4b
Cluster Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
cluster computing,cluster file systems,consistent file system,massive parallel I/O
File Control Block,Virtual file system,SSH File Transfer Protocol,Self-certifying File System,Computer science,Versioning file system,Unix file types,File system fragmentation,Operating system,Computer file
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
2
1573-7543
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
1.08
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lior Amar1565.15
Amnon Barak2590119.00
Amnon Shiloh310524.32