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Effect of readahead and ?le system block reallocation for LBCAS (LoopBack Content Addressable Storage) Kuniyasu Suzaki, Toshiki Yagi, Kengo Iijima, Nguyen Anh Quynh, Yoshihito Watanabe National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Alpha Systems Inc. {k.suzaki,yagi-toshiki,k-iijima,nguyen.anhquynh}@aist.go.jp watanays@alpha.co.jp Abstract on the server and ?xed vulnerable applications. The par- tial update is managed by LBCAS ef?ciently and the Disk pre-fetching, known as “readahead” of Linux ker- user can rollback to old OS. nel, arranges its coverage size by the rate of cache hit. LBCAS is a kind of loopback block device managed Fewer readaheads of large window can hide the slow by CAS (Content Addressable Storage) [4, 5, 6]. CAS I/O, especially it is effective for virtual block device of retrieves a data-block with the hash value of its con- virtual machine. High cache hit ratio is achieved by in- tent. Thus, CAS is a kind of indirect access manage- creasing locality of reference, namely, ?le system block ment of physical address. It is used for permanently reallocation based on an access pro?le. information archive because CAS distinguishes every We have developed a data block reallocation tool for data-block with hash value and reserves old blocks, al- ext2/3, called “ext2/3optimizer”. The relocation is ap- though direct physical access overwrites the previous plied to Linux booting on