Modern Filesystem Performance in Local Multi Disk Storage Space Configuration

• Authors: Smoliński Mateusz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper includes analysis of modern filesystems performance in multi-disk storage space configuration. In performance testing only popular open source filesystem types were used in GNU/Linux operating system: BTRFS, EXT4, XFS. Base file operations were tested in various local multi-disk storage configurations using Logical Volume Manager, that differentiated due to disk number, allocation policy and block allocation unit. In multi-disk storage configurations managed by LVM many allocation policies were used like various RAID levels and thin provisioning. The obtained filesystem performance characteristics allow to choose parameters of multi-disk storage space configuration, which provides the best performance for file operations. Research result show also which filesystem type is the efficient in storage space configuration with locally connected disks.

Keywords

EN

multi-disk storage configuration; filesystem performance; logical volumes; disk managers; data allocation policy

• Publisher: Katedra Informatyki Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Information Systems in Management
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 273-283

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Smoliński Mateusz

• Institute of Information Technology, Technical University of Lodz

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Identifiers

ISSN

2084-5537