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BSDCon '03 — Abstract
Pp. 79-90 of the Proceedings
Enhancements to the Fast Filesystem to Support Multi-Terabyte Storage Systems
Marshall Kirk McKusick, Author and Consultant
Abstract
This paper describes a new version of the fast filesystem, UFS2,
designed to run on multi-terabyte storage systems. It gives the
motivation behind coming up with a new on-disk format rather than
trying to continue enhancing the existing fast-filesystem format. It
describes the new features and capabilities in UFS2 including extended
attributes, new and higher resolution time stamps, dynamically
allocated inodes, and an expanded boot block area. It also describes
the features and capabilities that were considered but rejected giving
the reasons for their rejection. Next it covers changes that were
made to the soft update code to support the new capabilities and to
enable it to work more smoothly with existing filesystems. The paper
covers enhancements made to support live dumps and changes made to
filesystem snapshots needed to avoid deadlocks and to enable them to
work efficiently with multi-terabyte filesystems. Similarly, it
describes changes that needed to be made to the filesystem check
program to work with large filesystems. The paper gives some comments
about performance, and describes areas for future work including an
extent-based allocation mechanism and indexed directory structures.
The paper concludes with current status and availability of UFS2.
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