Metadata logging in an NFS server

Metadata logging in an NFS server (1995)

by Uresh Vahalia , Emc Corporation

Venue:	in Proceedings of the Winter 1995 USENIX Technical Conference
Citations:	11 - 0 self

Datum	Value	Source
TITLE	Metadata logging in an NFS server	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Uresh Vahalia	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Cary G. Gray, Abilene Christian University; Dennis Ting, EMC Corporation	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Emc Corporation	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Cary G. Gray, Abilene Christian University; Dennis Ting, EMC Corporation	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	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 logstructured file systems, whose log is their only ondisk 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. 1.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	1995	INFERENCE
VENUE	in Proceedings of the Winter 1995 USENIX Technical Conference	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	265--276	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	21 found	ParsCit 1.0