Optimization for data de-duplication algorithm based on file content

Frontiers of Optoelectronics - Tập 3 - Trang 308-316 - 2010
Xuejun Nie1, Leihua Qin1, Jingli Zhou1, Ke Liu1, Jianfeng Zhu1, Yu Wang1
1School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Tóm tắt

Content defined chunking (CDC) is a prevalent data de-duplication algorithm for removing redundant data segments in archival storage systems. Current researches on CDC do not consider the unique content characteristic of different file types, and they determine chunk boundaries in a random way and apply a single strategy for all file types. It has been proven that such method cannot achieve optimal performance for compound archival data. We analyze the content characteristic of different file types and propose candidate anchor histogram (CAH) to capture it. We propose an improved strategy for determining chunk boundaries based on CAH and tune some key parameters of CDC based on the data layout of underlying data de-duplication file system (TriDFS), which can efficiently store variable-sized chunks on fixed-sized physical blocks. These strategies are evaluated with representative archival data, and the result indicates that they can increase on average the compression ratio by 16.3% and write throughput by 13.7%, while only decrease the read throughput by 2.5%.

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