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GCTrees: Garbage Collecting Snapshots

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Dragga, Chris Santry, Douglas J.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	File-system snapshots have been a key component of enterprise storage management since their inception. Creating and managing them efficiently, while maintaining flexibility and low overhead, has been a constant struggle. Although the current state-of-the-art mechanism—hierarchical reference counting—performs reasonably well for traditional small-file workloads, these workloads are increasingly vanishing from the enterprise data center, replaced instead with virtual machine and database workloads. These workloads center around a few very large files, violating the assumptions that allow hierarchical reference counting to operate efficiently. To better cope with these workloads, we introduce Generational Chain Trees (GCTrees), a novel method of space management that uses concepts of block lineage across snapshots rather than explicit reference counting. As a proof of concept, we create a prototype file system—gcext4, a modified version of ext4 that uses GCTrees as a basis for snapshots and copy-on-write. In evaluating this prototype empirically, we find that although they have a somewhat higher overhead for traditional workloads, GCTrees have dramatically lower overhead than hierarchical reference counting for large-file workloads, improving by a factor of 34 or more in some cases. Furthermore, gcext4 performs comparably to ext4 across all workloads, showing that GCTrees impose minor cost for their benefits.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	32
Page Count	32
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15533077
e-ISSN	15533093
DOI	10.1145/2857056
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	1
Journal	ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2016-01-28
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	File systems Clones Data management Snapshots
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Hardware and Architecture

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