File systems fated for senescence? nonsense, says science!

A Conway, A Bakshi, Y Jiao, W Jannen… - … USENIX Conference on …, 2017 - usenix.org
File systems must allocate space for files without knowing what will be added or removed in
the future. Over the life of a file system, this may cause suboptimal file placement decisions …

An empirical study of {File-System} fragmentation in mobile storage systems

C Ji, LP Chang, L Shi, C Wu, Q Li, CJ Xue - … on Hot Topics in Storage and …, 2016 - usenix.org
Nowadays, mobile devices have become the necessities of everyday life. However, users
may notice that after a long period of usage, mobile devices will start experiencing sluggish …

Ars: Reducing f2fs fragmentation for smartphones using decision trees

L Yang, F Wang, Z Tan, D Feng… - … Design, Automation & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As we all know, file and free space fragmentation negatively affect file system performance.
F2FS is a file system designed for flash memory. However, it suffers from severe …

File fragmentation in mobile devices: Measurement, evaluation, and treatment

C Ji, LP Chang, SS Hahn, S Lee, R Pan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile devices, such as smartphones, have become a necessity in our daily life. However,
users may notice that after being used for a longtime, mobile devices begin to exhibit a …

Anti-aging lfs: Self-defragmentation with fragmentation-aware cleaning

J Park, YI Eom - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For several decades, filesystem aging has been widely studied, but nonetheless, it still
remains an unsolved problem. Among various filesystems, log-structured filesystems have …

Storage gardening: Using a virtualization layer for efficient defragmentation in the {WAFL} file system

R Kesavan, M Curtis-Maury, V Devadas… - 17th USENIX Conference …, 2019 - usenix.org
As a file system ages, it can experience multiple forms of fragmentation. Fragmentation of
the free space in the file system can lower write performance and subsequent read …

An empirical study of F2FS on mobile devices

Y Liang, C Fu, Y Du, A Deng, M Zhao… - 2017 IEEE 23rd …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flash Friendly File System (F2FS) is getting popular among mobile devices. However, lack
of empirical and comprehensive analysis for characteristics of F2FS prohibits better …

Countering fragmentation in an enterprise storage system

R Kesavan, M Curtis-Maury, V Devadas… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
As a file system ages, it can experience multiple forms of fragmentation. Fragmentation of
the free space in the file system can lower write performance and subsequent read …

Improving f2fs performance in mobile devices with adaptive reserved space based on traceback

L Yang, Z Tan, F Wang, D Feng, H Qin… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As we all know, file and free space fragmentation negatively affect file system performance.
F2FS is a file system designed for flash memory. However, it suffers from severe …

Efficient journaling writeback schemes for reliable and high-performance storage systems

SH Lim, HJ Choi, DS Park - Personal and ubiquitous computing, 2013 - Springer
We propose a efficient writeback scheme that enables guaranteeing throughput in high-
performance storage systems. The proposed scheme, called de-fragmented writeback …