TFS: A Novel File System for Mobile Multimedia System

Author

Lu, Jun ; Huang, Jian ; Yue, Xi ; Ren, Ly ; Hou

Author_Institution

Coll. of Software Eng., CUIT, Chengdu, China

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

12-14 April 2010

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

12

Abstract

This paper presents a novel high performance file system for mobile multimedia system: Track File System (TFS) based on the researches of the character of modern disk drive. This paper firstly analyses the non-linear seek latency character of modern disk drive, and then indicate the drawback of UNIX fast file system (FFS) due to small writes of mobile multimedia files. Then, this paper describes a novel disk layout of TFS: putting the meta-data and data into the same track. This disk layout of TFS can effectively depress the seek overhead of access for mobile multimedia files and greatly improve file system throughput. The experiments of this paper show that TFS is a high performance file system for mobile multimedia system.

Keywords

file organisation; mobile computing; multimedia systems; TFS system; UNIX fast file system; mobile multimedia system; track file system; Delay; Disk drives; Educational institutions; Engine cylinders; File systems; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Multimedia systems; Software engineering; Throughput; Disk Character; File System; Mobile Multimedia; Performance; Seek Overhead;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Mobile Computing (CMC), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6327-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6328-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMC.2010.157

Filename

5471397