Publication

CFS: Scaling Metadata Service for Distributed File System via Pruned Scope of Critical Sections

CFS is a scalable, fully POSIX-compliant distributed file system that eliminates the metadata management bottleneck via pruning the scope of critical sections for reduced locking overhead, enabling high-throughput metadata operations.

EuroSys 2023 / May 2023

distributed file systemmetadatascalabilityPOSIX

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Authors

Yiduo Wang, Yufei Wu, Cheng Li, Pengfei Zheng, Biao Cao, Yan Sun, Fei Zhou, Yinlong Xu, Yao Wang, Guangjun Xie

Abstract

CFS scales distributed file system metadata service by pruning the scope of critical sections, eliminating the metadata management bottleneck while maintaining full POSIX compliance.