When F2FS meets address remapping

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Abstract

While gaining popularity in mobile devices, F2FS, a flash-friendly variation of log-structured file system, reveals three drawbacks: segment cleaning overhead, metadata update overhead, and file fragmentation, which becomes conspicuous under random update workloads. This paper suggests for the first time to leverage the address-remap technique in flash storage to remedy such pitfalls in F2FS. Our approach can, while preserving the benefit of log-structured writes, achieve the eventual effect of in-place update, completely preventing three drawbacks of F2FS. It can thus significantly outperform ext4 as well as vanilla F2FS under random update workloads. Armed with another write mode, F2FS will become competitive for a wider range of applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHotStorage 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages31-36
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450393997
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Jun 2022
Event14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, HotStorage 2022 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 27 Jun 202228 Jun 2022

Publication series

NameHotStorage 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems

Conference

Conference14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, HotStorage 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period27/06/2228/06/22

Keywords

  • address-remap
  • F2FS

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