부분 가비지 컬렉션을 이용한 로그 구조 파일시스템의 쓰기 성능 개선

Abstract

Recently, flash storages devices have become popular. Log-structured file systems (LFS) are suitable for flash storages since these can provide high write performance by only generating sequential writes to the flash device. However, LFS should perform garbage collections (GC) in order to reclaim obsolete space. Recently, a slack space recycling (SSR) technique was proposed to reduce the GC overhead. However, since SSR generates random writes, write performance can be negatively impacted if the random write performance is significantly lower than sequential write performance of the target device. This paper proposes a partial garbage collection technique that copies only a part of valid blocks in a victim segment in order to increase the size of the contiguous invalid space to be used by SSR. The experiments performed in this study show that the write performance in an SD card improves significantly as a result of the partial GC technique.