GPFS: A Shared-Disk File System for Large Computing Clusters
FAST '02 Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Exporting Storage Systems in a Scalable Manner with pNFS
MSST '05 Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE / 13th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies
On incremental file system development
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Ursa minor: versatile cluster-based storage
FAST'05 Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies - Volume 4
Ceph: a scalable, high-performance distributed file system
OSDI '06 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation - Volume 7
Data ONTAP GX: a scalable storage cluster
FAST '07 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies
RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems
MSST '07 Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies
Better Cloud Storage Usability through Name Space Virtualization
UCC '13 Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM 6th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
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Parallel file systems are very sensitive to adverse conditions, and the lack of synergy between such file systems and some of the applications running on them has a negative impact on the overall system performance. Our observations indicate that the increased pressure on metadata management is one of the relevant causes of performance drops. This paper proposes a virtualization layer above the native file system that, transparently to the user, reorganizes the underlying directory tree, mitigating bottlenecks by taking advantage of the native file system optimizations and limiting the effects of potentially harmful application behavior. We developed COFS (COmposite File System) as a proof-of-concept virtual layer to evaluate the feasibility of the proposal.