Loading…
Back To Schedule
Wednesday, July 10 • 2:20pm - 2:40pm
Extension Framework for File Systems in User space

Sign up or log in to save this to your schedule, view media, leave feedback and see who's attending!

User file systems offer numerous advantages over their in-kernel implementations, such as ease of development and better system reliability. However, they incur heavy performance penalty. We observe that existing user file system frameworks are highly general; they consist of a minimal interposition layer in the kernel that simply forwards all low-level requests to user space. While this design offers flexibility, it also severely degrades performance due to frequent kernel-user context switching.

This work introduces ExtFUSE, a framework for developing extensible user file systems that also allows applications to register "thin" specialized request handlers in the kernel to meet their specific operative needs, while retaining the complex functionality in user space. Our evaluation with two FUSE file systems shows that ExtFUSE can improve the performance of user file systems with less than a few hundred lines on average. ExtFUSE is available on GitHub.

Speakers
AB

Ashish BIjlani

Research Scientist, Ossillate, Inc.
Ashish is a published author and researcher with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and extensive experience in building secure systems software from the ground-up. He has worked in the industry for over a decade, coupled with nearly a decade of top-tier... Read More →
UR

Umakishore Ramachandran

Georgia Institute of Technology


Wednesday July 10, 2019 2:20pm - 2:40pm PDT
USENIX ATC Track I: Grand Ballroom I–VI