• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.8A no.4
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• pp.375-384
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• 2001

The shared disk file systems use a technique known as file system journaling to support recovery of metadata on the SAN(Storage Area Network). In the existing journaling technique, the metadata that is dirtied by one host must be updated to disk space before some hosts access it. The system performance is decreased because the disk access number is increased. In this paper, we describe a new recovery technique using a global buffer to decrease disk I/O. It transmits the dirtied metadata into the other hosts through Fibre Channel network on the SAN instead of disk I/O and supports recovery of a critical data by journaling a data as well as metadata.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.107-111
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• 2023

Journaling techniques are widely used to maintain a consistent file system state in the event of a system crash. As existing journaling techniques are designed for block storage such as HDDs, they are not efficient for byte-addressable persistent memory media. This paper proposes a metadata journaling technique for in-memory file systems that has the ability of avoiding inconsistent file system states in crash situations. The proposed journaling technique reduces a large amount of writing by making use of the byte-addressable feature of memory media and bypasses heavy software I/O stack. Experimental results with the IOzone benchmark show that the proposed journaling technique improves the performance of Ext4 by 49.2% on average.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.45-51
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• 2019

Modern file systems have journaling mechanism to maintain their stored state consistently even under unexpected system crashes or disasters. However, the journaling makes I/O throughput lower. This performance degradation comes from the ordering mechanism between the data buffer and metadata buffer and two-staged buffer writing. Especially, if the data buffer and metadata buffer are journalled at the same time, then it incurs significant performance degradation due to the two-staged writing. That shows the trade-off relation-ship between I/O performance and system reliability. In this paper, we propose RFJ: a reliable and fast jour-naling mechanism to deal with this trade-off relationship. We propose an ordering enforced writeback journaling mode and selective journaling mechanism. The Ordering enforced writeback journaling mode achieves low I/O latency and the selective journaling mechanism achieves high reliability. The experimental result shows that the performance of RFJ is almost 5x faster than the journal mode of Ext3 file system but it still supports the same reliability with the journal mode.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.76-81
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• 2023

Journaling file systems are widely used to keep file systems in a consistent state against crash situations. As traditional journaling file systems are designed for block I/O devices like hard disks, they are not efficient for emerging byte-addressable NVM (non-volatile memory) media. In this article, we present a new in-memory journaling file system for NVM that is different from traditional journaling file systems in two respects. First, our file system journals only modified portions of metadata instead of whole blocks based on the byte-addressable I/O feature of NVM. Second, our file system bypasses the heavy software I/O stack while journaling by making use of an in-memory file system interface. Measurement studies using the IOzone benchmark show that the proposed file system performs 64.7% better than Ext4 on average.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.191-198
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• 2009

The FAT (File Allocation Table) compatible file system has been widely used in mobile devices and memory cards because of its data exchangeability among numerous platforms recognizing the FAT file system. By the way. modern embedded systems have tough demands for instant power failure recovery and superior performance for multimedia applications. The key issue is how to achieve the goals of superior write performance and instant booting capability while controlling compatibility issues. To achieve the goals while controlling compatibility issues. we devised a temporary meta-data journaling scheme for a FAT compatible file system. Benchmark results of the scheme implemented in a FAT compatible file system shows that it really improves write performance of the FAT file system by converting small random write for meta-data update to a large sequential write in journaling area. Also, it provides natural way to implement the instant booting capability. Nevertheless, the file system compatibility is temporarily compromised by the scheme because it stores updated meta-data in the temporary journaling area rather than to their original locations. However, the compatibility can be fully recovered at any time by journal-flushing that copies meta-data in journaling area to their original locations. Generally, the journal-flushing is done before un-mounting a memory card so that it can be used in other mobile devices which recognized FAT file system but not the temporary meta-data journaling scheme.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.8A no.4
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• pp.367-374
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• 2001

Recently, LINUX cluster file systems based on the storage area network (SAN) have been developed. In those systems, without using a central file server, multiple clients sharing the whole disk storage through Fibre Channel can freely access disk storage and act as file servers. Accordingly, they can offer advantages such as availability, load balancing, and scalability. In this paper, we describe metadata management schemes designed for a new SAN-based LINUX cluster file system. First, we present a new inode structure which is better than previous ones in disk block access time. Second, a new directory structure which uses extendible hashing is described. Third, we describe a novel scheme to manage free disk blocks, which is suitable for very large file systems. Finally, we present how we handle metadata journaling. Through performance evaluation, we show that our proposed schemes have better performance than previous ones.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.113-116
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• 2000

파일 시스템에서 문제가 발생했을 때, 지속적인 서비스를 제공하기 위해서 보다 빠른 회복이 요구된다. 기존의 파일 시스템은 fsck를 이용하여 시스템을 회복하는데 많은 시간이 필요하고, 회복 중에 오프라인 상태를 요구하기 때문에 서비스가 중단되는 단점이 있다. 따라서, GFS와 같은 공유 디스크 파일 시스템에서는 저널링을 이용하여 온라인 상태에서의 회복을 가능하게 하고 회복 시간을 단축시키는 효과를 거두었다. 그러나, 한 클라이언트가 디스크의 메타데이터를 수정하는 중에 다른 클라이언트가 동일한 블록을 사용하고자 할 때, 앞의 클라이언트가 메타데이터를 디스크 저널에 기록한 후 다시 디스크에 기록하기까지 기다린 후에 디스크에 접근하여 사용할 수 있다. 이처럼 동일한 블록을 사용하더라도 불필요한 디스크 접근이 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서 클라이언트에서 클라이언트로 메타데이터를 직접 넘겨줄 수 있도록 개선한다. 성능 분석 결과 이러한 개선 방안이 기존의 저널링보다 디스크 접근 횟수를 줄임으로써 트랜잭션 처리 시간을 줄이는 결과를 얻을 수 있다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.148-153
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• 2022

In keeping with the fourth industrial revolution, IoT-based environments are being implemented everywhere, and as a result, there is an increasing number of cases in which various types of sensed data are utilized efficiently. In particular, the number of multimedia application cases using smart devices is increasing, and there is an increasing number of cases in which large amounts of data are used as fast and convenient as small amounts of data. Given the increasing size of files used in smart devices, the study designed a modified Htree based on journaling meta data management in Ext4-based smart devices and analyzed performance through experiments of various methods. Performance evaluation analysis using IOZone and Hdread shows that the data size of 100Mbyte compared to the data input / output of existing htree is 10% or more, and that of the super large capacity file of 500Mbyte or more is 5% or more.