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Performance Augmentation of a FAT Filesystem by a Hybrid Storage System

2014; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-07350-7_54

2190-3026

Wasim Ahmad Bhat, S. M. K. Quadri,

Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

In this paper, we propose segregation and dispersal of hot-zone & cold-zone of a FAT filesystem over a hybrid-storage system for performance gains. Specifically, we propose hFAT, a high performance FAT32 filesystem design, that stores the most frequently accessed metadata of files on a solid-state storage drive while as actual contents on the magnetic drive. The idea is to eliminate the head positioning latency incurred by FAT filesystem operations while accessing metadata & userdata disk areas. After exercising the hFAT filesystem using Sprite LFS small-file benchmark, we found that hFAT design can reduce the latency incurred by FAT32 filesystem operations by a minimum of 25%, 10% and 90% during writing, reading and deleting a large number of small files respectively, if a solid-state storage device having latency lesser or equal to 10% of that of magnetic disk is used in addition.