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....user behavioranalysis mechanisms within the kernel [15, 19] Caches also make it difficult to maintain data consistency between memory and disk. A classic example is metadata commits, which are synchronous in most file systems. Asynchronous solutions do exist, but at the cost of code complexity [12, 38]. Moving data between disk and memory can involve remarkably complex management. For example, moving file data from disk to memory involves locating the metadata, scheduling the metadata transfer to memory, translating the metadata into runtime form, locating data and perhaps additional metadata, ....

....can be six orders of magnitude faster than accessing disk [23] Metadata no longer have dual representations, one in memory and one on disk. The removal of the disk representation also removes the complex synchronous or asynchronous mechanisms needed to propagate the metadata changes to disk [20, 12, 38], and avoids translation between the memory and disk representations. At this time, Conquest does not give special treatment to executables and shared libraries by forcing them into memory, but we anticipate benefits from doing so. In place execution will reduce startup costs and the time ....

Ganger GR, McKusick MK, Soules CAN, Patt YN. Soft Updates: A Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in File Systems. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 18(2) pp. 127153, May 2000.

....used to maintain the meta data such as hash table, LRU list, and the mapping information (STICS MAP) These meta data are stored in this NVRAM before writing to disks. The use of the NVRAM avoids frequently writing and reading meta data to from disks. Alternatively, we can also use Soft Updates [3] technique to keep meta data consistency without using NVRAM. 4) A log disk: The log disk is a sequential accessed device. It is used to cache data along with the RAM above in the processing unit. The log disk and the RAM form a twolevel hierarchical cache similar to DCD [7,8] 5) Storage ....

G. Ganger, M. McKusick, C. Soules, and Y. Patt, "Soft updates: a solution to the metadata update problem in file systems," ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2000, pp.127-153.

....metadata very effectively, most updates will not require any installation reads. Therefore the PAGE architecture will probably work just as well as the MOB architecture in a file system. The soft updates approach of Ganger and Patt uses a memory organization very similar to the MOB architecture [21, 22]. Instead of caching entire pages, part of the server memory holds individual modified metadata items. Unlike the MOB, this organization is not motivated by a desire to reduce memory usage. The soft updates approach does not use a stable log to ensure the recoverability of delayed writes. ....

G. Ganger and Y. Patt. Soft updates: A solution to the metadata update problem in file systems. Technical Report CSE-TR-254-95, University of Michigan, 1995.

....a crucial role in ensuring file system integrity. Conventional file systems, such as the Berkeley FFS [10] use costly synchronous writes to ensure that meta data updates reach persistent storage. Because of the considerable performance degradation caused by synchronous writes, Ganger and Patt [7, 6] introduce a special form of delayed write, called soft update. Soft updates serialize meta data updates to reflect the correct semantic dependencies as blocks are written to disk, which enables the use of delayed writes, but still uses conventional overwrite semantics. Both the ....

G. Ganger and Y. Patt. Soft updates: A solution to the metadata update problem in file systems. Technical Report CSETR -254-05, University of MichiganDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.

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Gregory R. Ganger, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Craig A. N. Soules, and Yale N. Patt. Soft Updates: a Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in File Systems. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 18(2):127--153, 2000.

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G. R. Ganger, M. K. McKusick, C. A. N. Soules, and Y. N. Patt. Soft updates: a solution to the metadata update problem in file systems. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 18(2):127-- 153. ACM Press, May 2000.

.... information identifies which pieces of data must be written to disk before which other pieces of data, and the system ensures that these ordering constraints are met [Ganger94] This section provides a brief description of Soft Updates; much more detail can be found in other publications [Ganger95, McKusick99, Ganger00]. When using Soft Updates to maintain metadata consistency, the file system uses delayed writes (i.e. write back caching) for meta data changes. Because most meta data blocks contain many pointers, cyclic dependencies occur frequently if dependencies are recorded only at the block level. ....

Ganger, G., McKusick, M.K., Soules, C., Patt, Y., "Soft Updates: A Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in File Systems," to appear in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems.

.... information identifies which pieces of data must be written to disk before which other pieces of data, and the system ensures that these ordering constraints are met [Ganger94] This section provides a brief description of Soft Updates; much more detail can be found in other publications [Ganger95, McKusick99, Ganger00]. When using Soft Updates to maintain metadata consistency, the file system uses delayed writes (i.e. write back caching) for meta data changes. Because most meta data blocks contain many pointers, cyclic dependencies occur frequently if dependencies are recorded only at the block level. ....

Ganger, G., Patt Y., "Soft Updates: A Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in File Systems," Report CSE-TR-254-95, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 1995.

....the ondisk state with additional information that can be used to reconstruct the committed metadata values after any system failure other than media corruption. Many modern filesystems successfully use write ahead logging to improve performance compared to the synchronous write approach. In [Ganger Patt, 1994], an alternative approach called soft updates was proposed and evaluated in the context of a research prototype. With soft updates, the filesystem uses delayed writes (i.e. write back caching) for metadata changes, tracks dependencies between updates, and enforces these dependencies at write back ....

....the pointer. Also, because the contents of the newly allocated disk location are unknown, rule #1 specifies an update dependency between the new block and the pointer to it. Because enforcing this update dependency with synchronous writes can reduce data creation throughput by a factor of two [Ganger Patt, 1994], many implementations ignore it for regular data blocks. This implementation decision reduces integrity and security, since newly allocated blocks generally contain previously deleted file data. Soft updates allows all block allocations to be protected in this way with nearzero performance ....

Ganger, McKusick, & Patt, . G. Ganger, M. McKusick, & Y. Patt, "Soft Updates: A Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in Filesystems, " ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (in preparation). Ganger & Patt, 1994.

....keeping the two items in the same sector, we can guarantee that they will be consistent with respect to each other. For file systems that use synchronous writes to ensure proper sequencing, this can result in a two fold performance improvement [Ganger94] For more aggressive implementations (e.g. [Hagmann87, Chutani92, Ganger95]) this reduces complexity and the amount of book keeping required. Directory sizes A potential down side of embedded inodes is that the directory size can increase substantially. While making certain that an inode and its name remain in the same sector, three directory entries with embedded ....

....files. There are several more direct and more comprehensive approaches to reducing the performance cost of maintaining metadata integrity, including write ahead logging [Hagmann87, Chutani92, Journal92, Sweeney96] shadow paging [Chamberlin81, Stonebraker87, Chao92, Seltzer93] and soft updates [Ganger95]. As shown in Section 4, our work complements such approaches. Of course, there is a variety of other work that has improved file system performance via better caching, prefetching, write back, indexing, scheduling and disk array mechanisms. We view our work as complementary to these. 6 ....

G. Ganger, Y. Patt, "Soft Updates: A Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in File Systems", Technical Report CSE-TR-254-95, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 1995.

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