Betrfs: a Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System
BetrFS: A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System William Jannen, Jun Yuan, Yang Zhan, Amogh Akshintala, Stony Brook University; John Esmet, Tokutek Inc.; Yizheng Jiao, Ankur Mittal, Prashant Pandey, and Phaneendra Reddy, Stony Brook University; Leif Walsh, Tokutek Inc.; Michael Bender, Stony Brook University; Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers University; Rob Johnson, Stony Brook University; Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Donald E. Porter, Stony Brook University https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast15/technical-sessions/presentation/jannen This paper is included in the Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’15). February 16–19, 2015 • Santa Clara, CA, USA ISBN 978-1-931971-201 Open access to the Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies is sponsored by USENIX BetrFS: A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System William Jannen, Jun Yuan, Yang Zhan, Amogh Akshintala, John Esmet∗, Yizheng Jiao, Ankur Mittal, Prashant Pandey, Phaneendra Reddy, Leif Walsh∗, Michael Bender, Martin Farach-Colton†, Rob Johnson, Bradley C. Kuszmaul‡, and Donald E. Porter Stony Brook University, ∗Tokutek Inc., †Rutgers University, and ‡Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract (microwrites). Examples include email delivery, creat- The Bε -tree File System, or BetrFS, (pronounced ing lock files for an editing application, making small “better eff ess”) is the first in-kernel file system to use a updates to a large file, or updating a file’s atime. The un- write-optimized index. Write optimized indexes (WOIs) derlying problem is that many standard data structures in are promising building blocks for storage systems be- the file-system designer’s toolbox optimize for one case cause of their potential to implement both microwrites at the expense of another.
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