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Venti analysis and memventi implementation: Designing a trace-based simulator and implementing a venti with in-memory index

Lukkien, Mechiel (2007) Venti analysis and memventi implementation: Designing a trace-based simulator and implementing a venti with in-memory index.

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Abstract:Venti is a write-once content-addressed archival storage system, storing its data on magnetic disks: each data block is addressed by its 20-byte SHA-1 hash (called score). This project initially aimed to design and implement a trace-based simulator matching Venti behaviour closely enough to be able to use it to determine good configuration parameters (such as cache sizes), and for testing new optimisations. A simplistic simulator has been implemented, but it does not model Venti behaviour accurately enough for its intended goal, nor is it polished enough for use. Modelled behaviour is inaccurate because the advanced optimisations of Venti have not been implemented in the simulator. However, implementation suggestions for these optimisations are presented. In the process of designing the simulator, the Venti source code has been investigated, the optimisations have been documented, and disk and Venti performance have been measured. This allowed for recommendations about performance, even without a simulator. Beside magnetic disks, also flash memory and the upcoming mems-based storage devices have been investigated for use with Venti; they may be usable in the near future, but require explicit support. The focus of this project has shifted towards designing and implementing memventi, an alternative implementation of the venti protocol. Memventi keeps a small part of the scores in main memory for lookups (whereas Venti keeps them on separate index disks). Memventi therefore does not scale to high storage capacity, but is much easier to set up, much simpler in design, and has good performance.
Item Type:Essay (Master)
Faculty:EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Programme:Embedded Systems MSc (60331)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/694
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