Implementing Cleaning in a Linux Log-Structured File system
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This paper details the design and implementation of a le system cleaner for a log-structured le system for Linux. This user-level cleaner reclaims disk space which is occupied by blocks no longer referenced by any le in the le system. The current functionality of our cleaner is very limited, but some initial data suggests that performance scales linearly with the amount of data to be cleaned.
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