Transaction Support in a Log-Structured File System

This paper presents the design and implementation of a transaction manager embedded in a log-structured file system [11]. Measurements show that transaction support on a log-structured file system offers a 10% performance improvement over transaction support on a conventional, read-optimized file system. When the transaction manager is embedded in the log-structured file system, the resulting performance is comparable to that of a more traditional, user-level system. The performance results also indicate that embedding transactions in the file system need not impact the performance of nontransaction applications.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1993
• Where: ICDE
• Authors: Margo I. Seltzer
• Keywords: Database, ICDE 1993, Log-structured file System, Transaction Manager, Transaction Support