The Zebra striped network file system

John H. Hartman; John K. Ousterhout

doi:10.1145/168619.168622

The Zebra striped network file system

John H. Hartman, John K. Ousterhout

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Abstract

Zebra is a network file system that increases throughput by striping file data across multiple servers. Rather than striping each file separately, Zebra forms all the new data from each client into a single stream, which it then stripes using an approach similar to a log-structured file system. This provides high performance for writes of small files as well as for reads and writes of large files. Zebra also writes parity information in each stripe in the style of RAID disk arrays; this increases storage costs slightly but allows the system to continue operation even while a single storage server is unavailable. A prototype implementation of Zebra, built in the Sprite operating system, provides 4 - 5 times the throughput of the standard Sprite file system or NFS for large files and a 20%-3x improvement for writing small files.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SOSP 1993 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	29-43
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9780897916325
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/168619.168622
State	Published - Dec 1 1993
Externally published	Yes
Event	14th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 1993 - Asheville, United States Duration: Dec 5 1993 → Dec 8 1993

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Name	SOSP 1993 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

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Conference	14th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 1993
Country/Territory	United States
City	Asheville
Period	12/5/93 → 12/8/93

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Computational Theory and Mathematics
Computer Science Applications
Software

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The Zebra striped network file system. / Hartman, John H.; Ousterhout, John K.
SOSP 1993 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 1993. p. 29-43 (SOSP 1993 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Hartman, JH & Ousterhout, JK 1993, The Zebra striped network file system. in SOSP 1993 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. SOSP 1993 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 29-43, 14th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 1993, Asheville, United States, 12/5/93. https://doi.org/10.1145/168619.168622

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