Abstract
B-trees are used by many file systems to represent files and directories. They provide guaranteed logarithmic time key-search, insert, and remove. File systems like WAFL and ZFS use shadowing, or copy-on-write, to implement snapshots, crash recovery, write-batching, and RAID. Serious difficulties arise when trying to use b-trees and shadowing in a single system. This article is about a set of b-tree algorithms that respects shadowing, achieves good concurrency, and implements cloning (writeable snapshots). Our cloning algorithm is efficient and allows the creation of a large number of clones. We believe that using our b-trees would allow shadowing file systems to better scale their on-disk data structures.
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