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2002 FREENIX Track Technical Program - Abstract
Recent Filesystem Optimisations in FreeBSD
Ian Dowse, Corvil Networks; David Malone, CNRI, Dublin Institute of Technology
Abstract
In this paper we summarise four recent optimisations to the
FFS implementation in FreeBSD: soft updates, dirpref, vmiodir
and dirhash. We then give a detailed exposition of dirhash's
implementation. Finally we study these optimisations under
a variety of benchmarks and look at their interactions. Under
micro-benchmarks, combinations of these optimisations can offer
improvements of over two orders of magnitude. Even real-world
workloads see improvements by a factor of 2-10.
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