Andreas Weissel, Holger Scherl, Philipp Janda, and Frank Bellosa

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS 2005), San Francisco, CA, USA, March 2005

Abstract:

In this work we investigate the implica­tions on the energy consumption of different popular file systems and propose a novel, log-structured file system aiming at minimized energy consumption by avoiding expensive disk seeks and introduced laten­cies due to rotational delays. We show that the energy efficiency of file systems is heavily influenced by the underlying data layout and file organization. Guide­lines for a low power file system design are developed and evaluated with measurements of the energy con­sumption of a prototype implementation. As on-going work we investigate different approaches to free space management. We discuss design choices for the imple­mentation of a family of free space managers and their implications on energy consumption.

BibTex:

@InProceedings{weissel05logstructuredfs,
  author = {Andreas Weissel and Holger Scherl and Philipp Janda and Frank Bellosa},
  type = {publication},
  title = {Revisiting Log-Structured File Systems for Low-Power Portable Storage},
  booktitle = {International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS 2005)},
  address = {San Francisco, CA},
  month = mar,
  year = 2005,
  affiliation = {University of Karlsruhe, Germany}
}