ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Log files: an extended file service exploiting write-once storage
SOSP '87 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM Symposium on Operating systems principles
Reimplementing the Cedar file system using logging and group commit
SOSP '87 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM Symposium on Operating systems principles
Beating the I/O bottleneck: a case for log-structured file systems
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
The design and implementation of a log-structured file system
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Operating system support for a video-on-demand file service
Multimedia Systems
Eliminating receive livelock in an interrupt-driven kernel
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
DualFS: a new journaling file system without meta-data duplication
ICS '02 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Supercomputing
FT-NFS: an efficient fault-tolerant NFS server designed for off-the-shelf workstations
FTCS '96 Proceedings of the The Twenty-Sixth Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS '96)
SRDS '99 Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Meta-data snapshotting: a simple mechanism for file system consistency
SNAPI '03 Proceedings of the international workshop on Storage network architecture and parallel I/Os
The Design of New Journaling File Systems: The DualFS Case
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Fast consistency checking for the Solaris file system
ATEC '98 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Storage virtualization using a block-device file system
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
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Over the last few years, there have been several efforts to use logging to improve performance, reliability, and recovery times of file systems. The two major techniques are metadata logging, where the log records metadata changes and is a supplement to the on-disk file system, and log-structured file systems, whose log is their only on-disk representation. When the file system is mainly or wholly accessed through the Network File System (NFS) protocol, it adds new considerations to the suitability of the logging technique. NFS requires that all operations be updated to stable storage before returning. As a result, file system implementations that were effective for local access may perform poorly on an NFS server. This paper analyzes the issues regarding the use of logging on an NFS server, and describes an implementation of a BSD Fast File System (FFS) with metadata logging that performs effectively for a dedicated NFS server.