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Motivation Architecture Implementation

Hierachical File Systems are Dead

Michał Włodarczyk

Wydział Matematyki, Informatyki i Mechaniki Uniwerstytet Warszawski

16.01.2012

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

Motivation Architecture Implementation

Introduction

My talk will concern paper M. Seltzer and N. Murphy, „Hierarchical File Systems Are Dead” USENIX HotOS XII,

• 2009. It describes an architecture of a new non-hierarchical file

system.

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

Motivation Architecture Implementation

Filesystems vs Databases

Both of them are meant to store and manipulate data. Databases: assume a lot of the structure of the data exclusive arbiter of access to data well optimized for (predictable) queries

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

Motivation Architecture Implementation

Filesystems vs Databases

Both of them are meant to store and manipulate data. Databases: assume a lot of the structure of the data exclusive arbiter of access to data well optimized for (predictable) queries Filesystems: know little about the data give more control hide data behind the abstraction (a file) simple structure – hierachical There is some place between them.

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

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Criticism of HFS

paradigm shift – we don’t care where our files are stored people learned how to find data using destriptions (Google) canonizing one hierarchy – there can be plenty performance assumptions don’t always hold double work during file searching unnecessary bottlenecks for parallel reading (/home/alice and /home/bob)

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

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Modern filesystem’s basics

backwards compatibility separate naming from access applications should be able to treat data in their own hierarchy direct access to data

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

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Basics of hFAD

A new file system called Hierarchical File Systems Are Dead: lowest level: object-based storage device (OSD) allow insertion and removal of bytes from the middle of the file search-based API

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

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Interface

An object is named by one or more tag/value pairs: POSIX – pathname FULLTEXT – searchterm USER – logname UDEF – annotations given manually by users APP – application name ID – object identifier and more.

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

Motivation Architecture Implementation

Interface

An object is named by one or more tag/value pairs: POSIX – pathname FULLTEXT – searchterm USER – logname UDEF – annotations given manually by users APP – application name ID – object identifier and more. Access interfaces: read, write – compatible with POSIX insert truncate – unlike in POSIX, it takes 2 off t arguments

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

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Some graphics

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

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Answering queries

Every tag/value query returns list of objects’ IDs matching the search terms (the order is unspecified). One-size-fits-all approach seems inadequate. Authors allow multiple indexing strategies. The index store layer is designed to support different indices (some kind of virtualization).

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

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OSD layer

Implemented on Linux/FUSE. Storage layer presents uniquely identified containers of bytes –

• bjects. Each of them contains some meta-data: security

attributes, last access and modification times and its size. OSD layer is comparable to ZFS Data Management Unit, but provides no abstraction for sets of objects. In hFAD, OSD can (but doesn’t have to) be transactional.

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

Motivation Architecture Implementation

OSD layer

Implemented on Linux/FUSE. Storage layer presents uniquely identified containers of bytes –

• bjects. Each of them contains some meta-data: security

attributes, last access and modification times and its size. OSD layer is comparable to ZFS Data Management Unit, but provides no abstraction for sets of objects. In hFAD, OSD can (but doesn’t have to) be transactional. Buddy algorithm is used for allocation. Objects are represented by B-tree database (Berkeley DB) which keys are file offsets. It supports insert and truncate

• perations.

Lucene is used for full-text search indices. Background threads perform lazy full-text indexing.

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

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Working example – WinFS

first demonstrated by Microsoft in 2003 developed as a separate product until 2006 data storage system project based on relational database relationships between data can be specified applications must provide a schema which allow WinFS to read, search and analyze their data user can create virtual folders (don’t have to be hierarchical)

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead

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Thank you!

Michał Włodarczyk Hierachical File Systems are Dead