Title
Physical disentanglement in a container-based file system
Abstract
We introduce IceFS, a novel file system that separates physical structures of the file system. A new abstraction, the cube, is provided to enable the grouping of files and directories inside a physically isolated container. We show three major benefits of cubes within IceFS: localized reaction to faults, fast recovery, and concurrent file-system updates. We demonstrate these benefits within a VMware-based virtualized environment and within the Hadoop distributed file system. Results show that our prototype can significantly improve availability and performance, sometimes by an order of magnitude.
Year
Venue
Field
2014
OSDI
Virtual file system,File system,Self-certifying File System,Computer science,Fork (file system),Versioning file system,Unix file types,File system fragmentation,Operating system,Computer file,Distributed computing
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
5
0.40
References 
Authors
33
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lanyue Lu11015.67
Yupu Zhang2986.18
Thanh Do31567.11
Samer Al-Kiswany429422.52
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau53133307.84
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau63120383.86