Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters (한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터)

Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (한국정보과학회)
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Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation of File System on a Chip

파일시스템을 내장한 저장장치의 설계, 구현 및 성능분석

  • 안성준 (서울대학교 전기컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 최종무 (단국대학교 정보컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 이동희 (서울시립대학교 컴퓨터과학부) ;
  • 노삼혁 (홍익대학교 정보컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 민상렬 (서울대학교 전기및컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 조유근 (서울대학교 전기및컴퓨터공학부)
  • Published : 2004.12.01
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Abstract

Interoperability is an important requirement of portable storage devices that are used to exchange and share data among diverse hosts. However, the required interoperability cannot be provided if different host systems use different file systems. To address this problem, we propose a new type of storage device called FSOC(File System On a Chip) that contains the file system within the storage device. In this paper, we give an example of the design and implementation of a flash memory-based FSOC and propose the performance models of the conventional storage device and the FSOC. We also analyze the performance characteristics of the conventional storage device and the FSOC based on the proposed performance models, and provide several experimental results using real applications that validate the performance models.

이동식 저장장치는 다양한 호스트에서 데이타 전달 및 공유를 위해 사용될 수 있기 때문에 상호운영성의 지원이 필수적이다 그러나 파일시스템의 기능이 호스트에서 수행되는 경우, 서로 다른 파일시스템을 사용하는 호스트들에 대해서는 상호운영성을 지원하지 못하는 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이동식 저장장치의 상호운영성을 향상시키기 위한 방법으로 파일시스템을 내장한 저장장치인 FSOC(File System On a Chip)를 제안하며, 이의 설계 및 구현의 예를 보인다. 또한 기존 저장장치와 FSOC의 성능 모델을 제시하고, 계시한 모델을 기반으로 기존 저장장치와 rsoc의 성능 차이를 분석하며, 구현된 FSOC를 이용한 실험을 통해 제시한 성능모델을 검증한다.

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