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Overlit: New Storage Driver for Localization and Specialization

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Abstract

The container technology, which is an operating system level virtualization technology, has been widely used in server computing environments such as cloud systems and data center systems, to overcome the limitations of conventional hypervisor-based virtualization technologies. Docker, which is developed primarily for Linux, aims to support high performance and convenient management of the server systems, while sacrificing some level of isolation. It supports very powerful storage and volume drivers to split a single image of each application into several sub-images for the repeatability and deduplication, but it still has some problems, such as global failures and bundled performance, caused by sharing a single host filesystem among all the layers. We develop a new container storage driver for localization and specialization, where the former is for eliminating deep dependencies among the layers and the latter is for enabling each layer to use its own filesystem. Our experimental results show that our storage driver improves the performance of read-only layer by up to 15% and that of read-write layer by up to 5 times over the other drivers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, BigComp 2019 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538677896
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2019
Event2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, BigComp 2019 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 27 Feb 20192 Mar 2019

Publication series

Name2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, BigComp 2019 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, BigComp 2019
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period27/02/192/03/19

Keywords

  • cloud computing
  • container
  • docker
  • overlay filesystem
  • storage driver

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