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The design and implementation of a log-structured file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
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DualFS: a new journaling file system without meta-data duplication
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Proceedings of the General Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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Microsoft Windows Internals, Fourth Edition: Microsoft Windows Server(TM) 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 (Pro-Developer)
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Fast consistency checking for the Solaris file system
ATEC '98 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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ATEC '97 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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ATEC '99 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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Ffsck: The Fast File-System Checker
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Efficient journaling writeback schemes for reliable and high-performance storage systems
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Ffsck: the fast file system checker
FAST'13 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies
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This paper describes the foundation, design, implementation, and evaluation of DualFS, a new high-performance journaling file system which has the same consistency guarantees as traditional journaling file systems but a greater performance. DualFS places data and metadata in different devices (usually, two partitions of the same storage device) and manages them in very different ways. The metadata device is organized as a log-structured file system, whereas the data device is organized as groups. The new design allows DualFS not only to recover the consistency quickly after a system crash, but also to improve the overall file system performance. We have evaluated DualFS and we have found that it greatly reduces the total I/O time taken by the file system in most workloads as compared to other file systems (Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, and JFS). The work carried out has also allowed us to draw some lessons which ought to be taken into account when implementing new file systems.