USENIX ATC '23 - SingularFS: A Billion-Scale Distributed File System Using a Single Metadata Server

USENIX ATC '23 - SingularFS: A Billion-Scale Distributed File System Using a Single Metadata Server

Hao Guo, Tsinghua University, Youyou Lu, Tsinghua University, Wenhao Lv, Tsinghua University, Xiaojian Liao, Tsinghua University, Shaoxun Zeng, Tsinghua University, Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University

Billion-scale distributed file systems play an important role in modern datacenters, and it is desirable and possible to support these file systems with a single metadata server. However, fully exploiting its performance faces unique challenges, including crash consistency overhead, lock contention …

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