Title :
Design and Implement of Snapshots in Linux Block Level
Author :
Li, Huaiyang ; Xie, Changsheng ; Liu, Yan ; Cao, Qiang
Author_Institution :
Nat. Lab. for Data Storage Syst., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan
Abstract :
This paper presented the design and implement of snapshots device driver in Linux. Our implement was carried out at the block level as the device driver. It is available to all file systems and databases. We used industry standard benchmark to measure the performance and uncovered many important performance characteristics.
Keywords :
Linux; database management systems; design; device drivers; software performance evaluation; standards; storage management; Linux block level; databases; file systems; industry standard benchmark; performance measurement; snapshots device driver design; Data storage systems; Databases; File servers; File systems; Laboratories; Linux; Measurement standards; Protection; Space technology; Writing; linux; snapshot;
Conference_Titel :
Networking, Architecture, and Storage, 2008. NAS '08. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chongqing
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3187-8
DOI :
10.1109/NAS.2008.43
