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....options for recovery from user error [37] Its heuristics attempt to keep only those versions of a file that are most important to users. Many modern systems support snapshots to assist recovery from system failure [11, 19, 20, 25, 34] Most closely related to CVFS are Spiralog [15, 21] and Plan9 [33], which use a log structured file system to do online backup by recording the entire log to tertiary storage. Chervenak, et al. performed an evaluation of several snapshot systems [10] Version control systems are user programs that implement a versioning system on top of a traditional file ....

....store the current version of the file, along with differences that can be applied to retrieve old versions. These systems usually have no concept of checkpointing, and so recreating old versions is expensive. Write once storage media keeps a copy of any data written to it. The Plan 9 system [33] utilized this media to permanently retain all filesystem snapshots using a log structured technique. A recent improvement to this method is the Venti archival storage system. Venti creates a hash of each block written and uses that as a unique identifier to map identical data blocks onto the same ....

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S. Quinlan. A cached WORM file system. Software--- Practice and Experience, 21(12):1289--1299, December 1991.

....store the current version of the file, along with differences that can be applied to retrieve old versions. These systems usually have no concept of checkpointing, and so recreating old versions is expensive. Write once storage media keeps a copy of any data written to it. The Plan 9 system [33] utilized this media using a log structured technique similar to CVFS. A recent improvement to this method is the Venti archival storage system. Venti creates a hash of each block written and uses that as a unique identifier to map identical data blocks onto the same physical location [34] This ....

....of work done in the database community for keeping versions of data through time. Most of this work has been done in the form of temporal data structures [2, 22, 23, 44, 45] Our directory structure borrows from these techniques. The log structured data layout was developed for write once media [33], and later extended to provide write performance benefits for read write disk technology [36] Since its inception, LFS has been evaluated [3, 27, 35, 38] and used [1, 7, 12, 17] by many different groups. Much of the work done to improve both LFS and LFS cleaners is directly applicable to CVFS. ....

Sean Quinlan. A cached WORM file system. Software---Practice and Experience, 21(12):1289--1299, December 1991.

....9TB 0.001 Exabyte 120 Tape (8mm) 5.0GB 116 580GB 0.17 Exabyte 10 Tape (8mm) 5.0GB 10 50GB 0.20 within the file system relation. The Plan 9 file system uses a WORM optical jukebox with disk as a cache for the jukebox. It makes no special effort to cluster block transfers to from the jukebox [Quinlan91]. 4 Coconut file system Log structured file systems are a good match for archival storage, which is almost a write only environment, since they are write optimized. In order to optimize read performance, the cleaner, which flushes data from disk to tape, must cluster related data together on ....

Sean Quinlan. A cached WORM file system. Software---Practice and Experience, 21(12):1289--99, December 1991.

....file systems, off line backup storage is used to protect users from system failures, media failures, and their own mistakes. Checkpointing file systems such as Plan 9, AFS, and WAFL build this support into the file system using copy on write techniques to create periodic file system checkpoints [16, 5, 6]. These checkpoints are available online and they allow users to access out dated versions that were captured by a checkpoint. Changes that occur between checkpoints (or backups) however, are not recoverable. Furthermore, the fact that checkpointing occurs at the granularity of the entire file ....

....exist. Second, versioning did not apply to directories. Operations such as renaming a file, creating or destroying a directory, or, in some cases, deleting a file, were thus not revocable. Several recent file systems have taken a different approach to versioning. In systems such as AFS [6] Plan 9 [16, 15], and WAFL [5] an efficient checkpoint of an entire file system can be created to facilitate backup or to provide users with some protection from accidental deletes and overwrites. A checkpoint is typically created and maintained in a copy on write fashion in parallel with the active file system. ....

Sean Quinlan. A cached worm file system. Software--- Practice and Experience, 21(12):1289--1299, December 1991.

....that for certain replacement algorithms, the cache hit ratio may decrease as the cache size increases. Thus, in a FFS relying on FIFO, one would increase the cache sizes of the attached computer systems and, at the same time, obtain a worse performance in certain cases. The Plan 9 filesystem [10, 9] uses the FIFO rule to determine which of the possible cache map blocks is used when blocks are added to the cache. The authors of the current version of the Plan 9 filesystem assumed that the extra complexity and storage requirements to implement other algorithms such as LRU (see next section) ....

Quinlan, S. A Cached WORM File System. Software Practice and Experience 21, 12 (Dec. 1991).

....files contigously on storage [15, 13, 4] Other drawbacks of the traditional UNIX filesystem design are: ffl the difficulty to integrate different media types, like RAM, harddisks and WORM optical disks to a single, virtual filesystem. A novel approach to such a filesystem is described in [12]. ffl its inadequateness for database applications [9, 3] Database systems for UNIX, like Oracle or Exodus, circumvent the UNIX filesystem by directly implementing their own storage system on the raw devices, which makes UNIX database systems more expensive. ffl its inadequateness for ....

Quinlan, S. A Cached WORM File System. Software Practice and Experience 21, 12 (Dec. 1991).

....image processing, visualization, and other I O intensive processes [14] In particular, the database reference patterns will be query dependent, and will most likely be random accesses within a file rather than sequential access. Our migration scheme is most similar to that described by Quinlan [8] for the Plan 9 file system. He provides a disk cache as a front for a WORM device which stores all permanent data. When file data are created, their tertiary addresses are assigned but the data are only written to the cache; a nightly conversion process copies that day s 2 A ....

Sean Quinlan. A Cached WORM File System. Software---Practice and Experience, 21(12):1289-- 1299, December 1991.

....processing, visualization, and other I O intensive processes [16] In particular, the database reference patterns will be query dependent, and will most likely be random accesses within a file rather than sequential access. HighLight s migration scheme is most similar to that described by Quinlan [8] for the Plan 9 file system. He provides a disk cache as a front for a WORM device that stores all permanent data. When file data are created, their tertiary addresses are assigned but the data are only written to the cache; a nightly conversion process copies that day s fresh blocks to the WORM ....

Sean Quinlan. A Cached WORM File System. Software---Practice and Experience, 21(12):1289--1299, December 1991.

....it is often crucial. The growth in capacity of storage technologies exceeds the ability of many users to generate data, making it practical to archive data in perpetuity. Plan 9, the computing environment that the authors use, includes a file system that stores archival data to an optical jukebox [16, 17]. Ken Thompson observed that, for our usage patterns, the capacity of the jukebox could be considered infinite. In the time it took for us to fill the jukebox, the improvement in technology would allow us to upgrade to a new jukebox with twice the capacity. Abundant storage suggests that an ....

....the data for a restore operation is scattered across multiple incremental backups and perhaps multiple tapes. The conventional solution is to limit the extent of this scattering by performing a full backup followed by a small number of incremental backups. File systems such as Plan 9 [16, 17], WAFL [5] and AFS [7] provide a more unified approach to the backup problem by implementing a snapshot feature. A snapshot is a consistent read only view of the file system at some point in the past. The snapshot retains the file system permissions and can be accessed with standard tools (ls, ....

Sean Quinlan. A cache worm file system. Software-Practice and Experience, Vol 21, 12, pp 1289-1299, December 1991.

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