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CSE 8343 - Team A1
Presentation 1
September 17, 2001
Modern File Systems
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EXT2/EXT3
Alex MacFarlane
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Outline
• Introduction• History• ext2fs Structure• Advanced Features• Performance Optimizations• Software Support• The future – ext3fs• Bibliography
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Introduction
• Most widely used filesystem on Linux
• Supports 4TB filesystems
• Supports 2GB filesize
• Supports filenames up to 255 chars
• Variable block size
• Extensible for future growth
• Developed by Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, and Stephen Tweedie
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Brief History
• Minixfs was the original filesystem for Linux – but too limited
• VFS added to the Linux kernel (ca. 1991)• VFS allowed for integration of ‘Extended
Filesystem’, extfs (1992)• extfs was too slow and had some limitations• ext2fs is born in Jan 1993, based upon extfs code• Over time stability has been improved and
features added.
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ext2fs Structure
Filesystem Toplevel:
Block Group N
…Block Group 2
Block Group 1
Boot Sector
Block Bitmap
Inode Bitmap
Data Blocks
Inode Table
Group Descriptors
Super Block
Block Group:
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Inodes
• Type of file (char/block/link/etc)
• uid of owner
• gid of file
• Size in bytes
• Last access time
• Last inode modification time
• Last content modification time
• Time when file was deleted
• Number of links pointing to file
• Number of blocks allocated to this file
• Fragment information
• Flags
Each inode contains information for one file:
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Inode Diagram
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Advanced Features
• Reserved blocks for superuser
• Synchronous updates
• Secure Deletion
• Undelete Information
• Immutable Files
• Filesystem State Tracking– Clean / Not Clean / Erroneous– Maximal mount count / interval
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Performance Optimizations
• Fast symbolic links
• Readaheads on sequential or directory reads
• Block groups keeps inodes and data close
• Preallocation leads to contiguous allocation (75% hit rate on full filesystems)
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Software Support
• ext2fs utilities (e2fsprogs)– e2fsck
– tune2fs
– mke2fs
– dumpe2fs, debugfs
• ext2fs library– Easy maintenance of code
– Programs need not be recompiled to use new code
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ext3fs
• An extension of ext2fs to provide journaling support.
• Increases availability and reliability.• Completely backward compatible with
ext2fs.• Uses ‘jfs’ generic journaling layer’s to
provide transaction support.• Ships with upcoming Redhat Linux 7.2
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Bibliography• Analysis of the Ext2fs structure
– Louis-Dominique Dubeau
– http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html
• Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem
– Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie
– http://khg.redhat.com/HyperNews/get/fs/ext2intro.html
• John’s Spec of the Second Extended Filesystem
– John Newbigin
– http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/explore2fs/es2fs.htm
• ext2fs home page
– http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2.html
• Linux ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO
– http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html
• A Tour of the Linux VFS
– http://khg.redhat.com/HyperNews/get/fs/vfstour.html
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Solaris File Systems
Garrick Williamson
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The UNIX File System (UFS)
• The UXIX File System (UFS) was derived from the Berkeley UNIX Fast File System developed during the 1980s.
• Supports 1TB file systems
• Supports 2 GB file size
• Variable block size
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UFS Structure
• 4 types of blocks: boot block, super block, Inode and Storage/Data block.
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Inode Structure
Each Inode contains information for one file: • File Length(#bytes)/File Type/File Mode(r,w,etc)
• Link Count
• Owner and Group Ids
• Access Privilege
• Time of Last Access
• Time of Last Modification
• Etc.
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Inode Diagram
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UFS Error Checking/Recovery
• Due to UFS’ storing of large amounts of data in caches in main memory, the potential of losing data is substantial when the system crashes.
• A file-system consistency check must be performed at reboot in order to ensure reliable operation after the next mount of the file system.
• As file systems increase in their size, the time performance of the consistency check has become unacceptable in its length.
• In order to improve this newer file systems use logging techniques to facilitate faster recovery times.
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UFS Comments
• UFS is the file system that is shipped with Solaris.
• UFS uses block based allocation schemes which provide adequate random access and latency for small files, but has limited through put for large files.
• Not suitable for continuous media applications.• Not suitable for real-time access.• As stated, UFS is not appropriate in the area of
error recovery as file system size increases.
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Veritas File System (VxFS)
• VxFS is geared toward UNIX environments that require high performance and availability and deal with large amounts of data. [1]
• Supports 1TB file systems• Supports 2 TB file size• Variable block size (1024, 2048, 4096 and 8192 bytes)• Extent (one or more adjacent blocks) based
represented as an address-length pair.• Fast File System Recovery through logging
(Journaling)
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Inode Structure
Each Inode (256 bytes) contains information for one file:
• File Length• Link Count• Owner and group Ids• Access privileges• Time of last access• Time of last modification• Pointed to the extents that contain the file’s
data
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VxFS Comments
• Extents makes it possible for disk I/O to take place in units of multiple blocks since the storage is allocated in consecutive blocks.
• Multiple block operations are considerably faster than single block operations for sequential I/O.
• Uses Journaling, logging of disk operations, to facilitate faster recovery. Instead of checking the entire file system during a crash recovery, only the blocks listed in the log need to be checked. This substantially decreases the recovery time.
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Bibliography
• Lee W., D. Su, J. Srivastava, QoS-based evaluation of file systems and distributed system services for continuous media provisioning, Information and Software Technology, Elsevier Science, December 2000, pp. 1021-1035.
• Kotz, David and Nils Nieuwajaar, Flexibility and Performance of Parallel File Systems, ACM Operating Systems Review 30(2), ACM Press, April 1996, pp. 63-73.
• Peacock, J., A. Kamaraju, S. Agrawal, Fast Consistency Checking for the Solaris File System, Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 1998.
• Veritas File System 3.4, Admin. Guide– Veritas Software Corporation
– http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Software/Storage_Software/VERITAS_File_System/index.html
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XFS File System
Brad Crabtree
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XFS Overview
• 64-bit Database Journaling File System
• Developed by SGI in min 1990s– Available for Linux, May 2001
• *Guaranteed Rate I/O (GRIO)
• Individual Contiguous Extents <= 1TB
• PB of data and millions of files supported without performance degradation
• Dump while in use
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XFS Overview (cont.)
• Supported by XLV Volume Manager– striping (128 max), concatenation, and disk
plexing (4 max)• including root partition mirroring
– dynamic modification of mounted file systems• remove/add/replace mirror, grow file system
– journal (can be) stored on separate partition for performance
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XFS Architecture
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Space Overview
File System
Allocation Groups
SuperBlock Alloc. Group Header
0 1
Inodes...
Extents
Data Block Data Block Data Block Data Block
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Directory Design
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B Tree Structure
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B+ Tree Allocation
• Two Complimentary B+ Trees maintained for free space– sorted by length,
sorted by starting block #
– allows fast allocation for large files as well as directory of many small files
Avoids multiple indirection andlinear search of directory files
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Delayed Block Allocation
• As files are written– Space is reserved but blocks are not
allocated– Data held in buffer cache– Allows XFS to allocate largest number of
blocks to an extent (contiguous space) and allocate fewest extents as possible
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Superblock
• Superblock contains count of inodes, free inodes and free blocks
• Bottleneck Avoidance– Move from common buffer cache to private– Use special counter modify routines which
only lock superblock until just before transaction occurs
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Misc. Features
• Small File Handling– Very small files are stored in the inodes– Buffer cache before write for contig. alloc.
• Attribute Management– User defined attributes stored outside of file
• Supports DMAPI for HMS File Systems• Files identified by inode (magic cookie)
and unique file ID
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XFS Sub-volumes
• Data Sub-volume– Variable Contiguous Extent allocations instead
of blocks– Allows more data to be accesses in one disk
action
• Journal Sub-volume– Separate circular serial log partition for each
volume
• Real-Time Sub-volume (see GRIO)
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Guaranteed Rate I/O (GRIO)
• Block sizes of 512 to 1G bytes– Larger better for streaming media
• Guarantees are expressed as a file descriptor, data rate, duration, and start time
• Hard and Soft Rate Guarantees– Hard requires disabling HD self-diagnostics
and error correction, single SCSI bus
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GRIO (cont.)
• Tunable Large extents are statically allocated at file system make
• Deterministic Bitmap Allocation
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Bibliography
• “XFS: A Next Generation Journalled 64-Bit Filesystem With Guaranteed Rate I/O”, Mike Holton, Raj Das, Silicon Graphics, Inc
• “Modern File Systems and Storage”,Rodney R. Ramdas, Competa IT b.v
• Open Source Systems - XFS Design Documents (all), Silicon Graphics, Inc.