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Abstract: Most contemporary implementations of the Berkeley Fast File System optimize file system throughput by allocating logically sequential data to physically contiguous disk blocks. This clustering is effective when there are many contiguous free blocks on the file system. But the repeated creation and deletion of files of varying sizes that occurs over time on active file systems is likely to cause fragmentation of free space, limiting the ability of the file system to allocate data contiguously... (Update)
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...space may become scarce on the file system, forcing new files to be fragmented and decreasing file system throughput. A recent study [12] has shown that UNIX file systems that are more than two years old may perform 15 worse than comparable empty file systems. This decline...
...of file system performance, access characteristics, and traffic patterns has received considerable attention in the past few years. In [24], the effects of file layout and fragmentation of a disk on file system performance are measured using synthesized workloads. Baker...
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Smith, K. A., Seltzer., M, "File Layout and File System Performance," Harvard Division of Applied Sciences Technical Report, 1994. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/smith94file.html More
@techreport{ smith94file,
author = "K. Smith and M. Seltzer",
title = "File Layout and File System Performance",
number = "TR-35-94",
year = "1994",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/smith94file.html" }
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