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Faster FUSE Filesystems with Efficient Data Transfers

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Systems services running at user level provide several benefits including execution isolation, flexible software development and fast device access. The FUSE framework adds backward compatibility to user-level filesystems but at a performance cost. We claim that although the FUSE data path plays critical role in the system performance, it remains relatively unexplored. We introduce several new methods to avoid memory management overheads, skip unnecessary buffering and improve memory copy efficiency. We have developed prototype software and used production local and network filesystems that experimentally show performance improvements up to 50% over the default Linux mechanism of data transfer between the application and the filesystem.

Source: ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys)

DOI: 10.1145/3678015.3680493

Authors: Giorgos Kappes, Stergios V. Anastasiadis

Institution: University of Ioannina

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Data Storage Technologies

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Universitas Brawijaya

Award: G6983410999