A Survey on File Defragmentation Techniques on Modern Storage Systems

Sangjin Lee, Lan Anh Nguyen, Hyeongi Yeo, Sunggon Kim, Sungrae Cho, Yongseok Son

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Abstract

File fragmentation is one of the widely studied subjects for several decades due to its considerable degradation on I/O operations. Also, it is a well-known problem in academia that file fragmentation on HDD disks can extremely lower the throughput and increase tail latency. However, even with modern storage devices, such as flash-based SSDs and Optane SSDs, the highly fragmented file systems shows considerable underutilization of the storage device. Due to the different nature of the modern storage systems in comparison to the conventional disks, the fragmentation is often called 'aging'. This paper shows an overview of the aging of modern storage devices and their fragmentation effects. Also shows the survey of file fragmentation and its related literature, showing the studies discovering fragmentation in file systems, and mitigation techniques which suitable for modern storage devices.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICTC 2023 - 14th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence
Subtitle of host publicationExploring the Frontiers of ICT Innovation
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages785-787
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9798350313277
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event14th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, ICTC 2023 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 11 Oct 202313 Oct 2023

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on ICT Convergence
ISSN (Print)2162-1233
ISSN (Electronic)2162-1241

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, ICTC 2023
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period11/10/2313/10/23

Keywords

  • Defragmentation
  • File system aging
  • Fragmentation

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