Developing a new block allocation scheme of EXT-2 file system named NHA(New Hybrid Allocation)-Ext2 that takes advantages of log-structured file systems and convential file systems for optimizing random writes as well as sequential writes on SSDs.
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We have tested our NHA-EXT2 on several SSD for a month. - workstation: DELL PowerEdge T105 - workload: developer environment - SSD: MTRON(MSP-SATA7035-064), Samsung(MCCOE64G) There is no bug so far. We are monitoring NHA-EXT2 now.
At present, we are developing the NHA-cleaner, but it is difficult to develop the NHA-cleaner. So developing the NHA-cleaner may takes some time. * plans 1. Researchs in the past survey 2. The architecture of NHA-cleaner design 3. Implementation of the NHA-cleaner on linux 4. Test and analysis
1. We faced some problem which was understanding the linux kernel page cache while we modified the source code of ext2 file system. 2. The present progressing rate of this project is 85% of total rate.
1. We have upgraded the allocation policy of the ext2 and experimented the performace of the system that applied the ext2. 2. The present progressing rate of this project is 70% of total rate.
1. We are studying the block layer of linux-kernel to implement segment writing. 2. We are making proto-type implementation of segments writing.
We are upgrading NHA-Ext2 allocation policy. Current version of NHA-Ext2 shows slightly low performance. Therefore modification should be required. And we are also upgrading Postmark benchmark source for accurate experiments.
1. In order to implement New Hybrid Allocation policy,we have studied the delayed allocation and the page cache in the ext2 file system. 2. We faced some problem which was understanding the linux vfs layer while we modified the source code of ext2 file system.
* To optimize the SSD performance, filesystem have to write like the LFS(Log-Struct filesystem)'s allocation policy. So, we are modifying the allocation policy of ext2 filesystem as the LFS. We expect that the performance of modified ext2 will improve.
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