• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.417-429
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• 2013

A lot of OS(Operating Systems) such as Linux and Android selected Ext4 as the official file system. Therefore, a recovery of deleted file from Ext4 is becoming a pending issue. In this paper, we suggest how to recover the deleted file by analyzing the entire structure of Ext4 file system, the study of metadata area, the distinct feature when file is assigned and deleted. Particularly, we focus on studying the features of file which is assigned in Ext4 file system in Android OS and also suggest the method to recover the deleted file that is fragmented from the un-allocated area.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.52-57
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• 2015

In this paper, we analyze the performance of the TRIM commands on various SSDs and, based on our analysis results, we enhance the performance of these TRIM commands in the Ext4 file system. We observed that the performance of the TRIM commands improves as the size of the LBA-range increases, the sector number is aligned and continuous or more LBA-ranges are notified via a single TRIM command. However, although the performance is better when multiple LBA-ranges are informed by a single TRIM command, the Ext4 file system issues a single TRIM command for every LBA-range. In this paper, we modify the Ext4 file system to convey at most 64 LBA-ranges per TRIM command. Evaluations through Filebench show that the performance of file deletion operations is improved by up to 35%.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.178-185
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• 2018

Recently, demands for computer systems with multicore CPUs and high-performance flash-based storage devices (i.e., flash SSD) have rapidly grown in cloud computing, surer-computing, and enterprise storage/database systems. Journaling file systems running on high-performance systems do not exploit the full I/O bandwidth of high-performance SSDs. In this article, we evaluate and analyze the performance of the Linux EXT4 file system with high-performance SSDs and multicore CPUs. The system used in this study has 72 cores and Intel NVMe SSD, and the flash SSD has performance up to 2800/1900 MB/s for sequential read/write operations. Our experimental results show that checkpointing in the EXT4 file system is a major overhead. Furthermore, we optimize the checkpointing procedure and our optimized EXT4 file system shows up to 92% better performance than the original EXT4 file system.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.363-373
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• 2017

Ext4 file system is widely used in various computing environments such as those of the PC, the server, and the Linux-based embedded system. Ext4, which uses a buffer for block I/O, provides fsync() system call to applications to guarantee the consistency of a specific file. A log of the analytical studies regarding the operation of Ext4 and the improvement of its performance has been compiled, but it has not been studied in detail in terms of kernel versions. We figure out that the behavior of fsync() system call is different depending on the kernel version. Between the kernel versions of 3.4.0 and 4.7.2, 3.4.0, 3.8.0, and 4.6.2 showed behavioral differences regarding the fsync() system call. The latency of fsync() in kernel 3.4.0 is longer than that of the more-advanced 3.7.10; meanwhile, the characteristics of 3.8.0 enabled the disruption of the Ext4 journaling order, but the ordered defect was solved with 4.6.2.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.21-28
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• 2016

File Time information has a significant meaning in digital forensic investigation. File time information in Linux Ext4 (Extended File System 4) environment is the Access Time, Modification Time, Inode Change Time, Deletion Time and Creation Time. File time is variously changed by user manipulations such as creation, copy and edit. And, the study of file time change is necessary for evidence analysis. This study analyzes the change in time information of files or folders resulting from user manipulations in Linux operating system and analyzes ways to determine real time of malware infection and whether the file was modulation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.88-95
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• 2010

As the development of IT technologies, storages stored very sensitive data which should not be damaged, too. It increased the importance of data backup and makes the time need to backup data important issues. Snapshot is one of the backup technologies which needs short downtime to maintain consistency of data during backup data. In this paper, we studied two kinds of snapshots, local file system based snapshot and network file system based snapshot. In the local file system based snapshot part, we propose the PSnap which is a snapshot library for non-snapshot file system as like Ext2, Ext3 and XFS. In another part, network file system based snapshot, we propose the GlorySnap which snapshot utilities for GloryFS is a distributed file system was made by ETRI.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.169-183
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• 2003

In multimedia systems, very large files are stored and played. Because those files are read-centric and have low reusability, legacy file systems that are optimized for the use of many small files, do not show good performance in the multimedia systems. We implemented a new file system to deal with those characteristics. The new file system shows the superior performances in read, write and mixed operation to the Linux's EXT2 or EXT3 file systems. The new file system was implemented on the Linux operating system, and it also can be easily ported to other operating systems.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.368-374
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• 2020

Journaling file systems (JFS) manage changes of file systems not yet committed in a data structure known as a journal to restore the file system in the event of an unexpected failure. Extra write operations required for journaling negatively affect the performance of JFS. The high-performance and byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) was expected to easily mitigate these performance problems by providing NVM space as journal storage. However, even with such non-volatile memory technologies, performance problems still arise due to scalability problems inherent in processing transactions of JFS. To solve this problem, we proposes a technique for processing file system transactions for scalable performance. To this end, lock-free data structures are used and multiple I/O requests are allowed to simultaneously be processed on high-performance storage devices with multiple I/O channels. We evaluate the file system with the proposed technique by comparing the original ext4 file system and the recent proposed NVM-based journaling file system on a multi-core server, and experimental results show that our file system has better performance (up-to 2.9/2.3 times) than the original ext4 file system and the recent NVM-based journaling file system, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.2202-2211
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• 2006

EXT3NS is a special-purpose file system for large scale multimedia streaming servers. It is built on top of streaming acceleration hardware device called Network-Storage card. The EXT3NS file system significantly improves streaming performance by eliminating memory-to-memory copy operations, i.e. sending video/audio from disk directly to network interface with no main memory buffering. In this paper, we design and implement a buffer cache mechanism, called PMEMCACHE, for EXT3NS file system. We also propose a buffer cache replacement method called ONS for the buffer cache mechanism. The ONS algorithm outperforms other existing buffer replacement algorithms in distributed multimedia streaming environment. In EXT3NS with PMEMCACHE, operation is 33MB/sec and random read operation is 2.4MB/sec. Also, the buffer replacement ONS algorithm shows better performance by 600KB/sec than other buffer cache replacement policies. As a result PMEMCACHE and an ONS can greatly improve the performance of multimedia steaming server which should supportmultiple client requests at the same time.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.39-46
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• 2013

If a file system is damaged because of the unusual system close, the system performs the consistency test using fsch and it takes long time. Especially, if it is a big file system, it will take a lot of time. The journaling file system that uses journaling technique, can reduce the restoring time because it uses meta data and it may increase the chance of restoration when restoring. The goal of this paper compared performance evaluation journaling file systems focused on the reading and writing using Iozone tool which is the kernel based benchmarking tool in linux operating system. In this paper, Ex4 which is the current basic Linux file system. is 1.28x faster than XFS file system in terms of file read performance and 1.22x faster than Ext3 file system in terms of file write performance.