H2cloud: Maintaining The Whole Filesystem In An Object Storage Cloud
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 47TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL PROCESSING(2018)
摘要
Object storage clouds (e.g., Amazon S3) have become extremely popular due to their highly usable interface and cost-effectiveness. They are, therefore, widely used by various applications (eg., Dropbox) to host user data. However, because object storage clouds are flat and lack the concept of a directory, it becomes necessary to maintain file meta-data and directory structure in a separate index cloud. This paper investigates the possibility of using a single object storage cloud to efficiently host the whole filesystem for users, including both the file content and directories, while avoiding meta-data loss caused by index cloud failures. We design a novel data structure, Hierarchical Hash (or H2), to natively enable the efficient mapping from filesystem operations to object-level operations. Based on H2, we implement a prototype system, H2Cloud, that can maintain large filesystems of users in an object storage cloud and support fast directory operations. Both theoretical analysis and real-world experiments confirm the efficacy of our solution: H2Cloud achieves faster directory operations than OpenStack Swift by orders of magnitude, and has similar performance to Dropbox but yet does not need a separate index cloud.
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