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- From: "Eric H. Herrin II" <eric@ms.uky.edu>
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- Date: 28 Jan 1993 19:31:12 GMT
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- Tech-report number: 225-93
- Date: January 1993
- Title: The Viva File System
- Authors: Eric H. Herrin II and Raphael A. Finkel
- E-mail: eric@ms.uky.edu and raphael@ms.uky.edu
- Abstract:
- This paper describes the Viva File System or VIFS, a technique for
- high-performance file allocation on disks. VIFS uses bitmaps to
- represent both free blocks on the disk and allocated blocks in
- each file. Allocation bitmaps provide a very fast method of
- finding blocks close to the last allocated block in a file.
- Fragments (partial blocks) are used to store the overflow from
- the last file block; the minimum size of a fragment is chosen
- when the file system is initialized. Conventional file systems,
- such as the Berkeley Fast File System (FFS), can store a file
- containing 96KB of data without using indirect blocks and around
- 16 MB of data for each indirect block. With the same block size,
- VIFS can store up to about 10 MB of data without using indirect
- blocks and up to 500 MB of data per indirect block. The design
- of VIFS allows some previously synchronous operations to occur
- asynchronously, resulting in significant speed improvements over
- FFS. VIFS provides multiple read-ahead to maintain its high
- speed when several processes are competing for disk accesses. We
- provide experimental measurements taken from an implementation of
- Viva in a BSD 4.3 kernel. The measurements show that VIFS is
- significantly faster than FFS for nearly all file system opera-
- tions.
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