File System Support for Delta Compression (2000)
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@TECHREPORT{MacDonald00filesystem,
author = {Joshua P. MacDonald},
title = {File System Support for Delta Compression},
institution = {},
year = {2000}
}
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Abstract
Delta compression, which consists of compactly encoding one le version as the result of changes to another, can improve eciency in the use of network and disk resources. Delta compression techniques are readily available and can result in compression factors of ve to ten on typical data. Managing delta-compressed storage, however, is a dicult task. I will present a system that attempts to isolate the complexity of delta-compressed storage management by separating the task of version labeling from performance issues. I will show how the system integrates delta-compressed transport with delta-compressed storage. Existing tools for managing delta-compressed storage suer from weak le system support. Lack of transaction support is responsible for inecient application behavior. The only atomic operation in the traditional le system forces unnecessary disk activity due to copying costs. I will demonstrate that transaction support can improve application performance and extensibility wit...
