Chapter 13 Mass Storage Systems Disk Structure Disk Scheduling Disk Management Swap Space Management RAID Structure Disk Attachment Stable Storage Implementation Tertiary Storage Devices Operating System Issues Performance Issues Disk Structure Disk drives are addressed as large 1 dimensional arrays of logical blocks where the logical block is the smallest unit of transfer The 1 dimensional array of logical blocks is mapped into the sectors of the disk sequentially Sector 0 is the first sector of the first track on the outermost cylinder Mapping proceeds in order through that track then the rest of the tracks in that cylinder and then through the rest of the cylinders from outermost to innermost 1 Moving Head Disk Mechanism Disk platters 1 8 5 Set of tracks form cylinder 1000s of cylinders in a disk Each track may contain 100s of sectors Outer tracks contain more sectors 60 150 rotations per second Move to desired cylinder seek time Rotate to the right sector rotational time Disk Scheduling The operating system is responsible for using hardware efficiently for the disk drives this means having a fast access time and disk bandwidth Access time has two major components Seek time is the time for the disk to move the heads to the cylinder containing the desired sector Rotational latency is the additional time waiting for the disk to rotate the desired sector to the disk head Minimize seek time Seek time seek distance Disk bandwidth is the total number of bytes transferred divided by the total time between the first request for service and the completion of the last transfer 2 Disk Scheduling Cont Several algorithms exist to schedule the servicing of disk I O requests We illustrate them with a request queue 0 199 98 183 37 122 14 124 65 67 Head pointer 53 FCFS Illustration shows total head movement of 640 cylinders 3 SSTF Selects the request with the minimum seek time from the current head position SSTF scheduling is a form of SJF scheduling may cause starvation of some requests Illustration shows total head movement of 236 cylinders SSTF Cont 4 SCAN The disk arm starts at one end of the disk and moves toward the other end servicing requests until it gets to the other end of the disk where the head movement is reversed and servicing continues Sometimes called the elevator algorithm Illustration shows total head movement of 208 cylinders SCAN Cont 5 C SCAN Provides a more uniform wait time than SCAN The head moves from one end of the disk to the other servicing requests as it goes When it reaches the other end however it immediately returns to the beginning of the disk without servicing any requests on the return trip Treats the cylinders as a circular list that wraps around from the last cylinder to the first one C SCAN Cont 6 C LOOK Version of C SCAN Arm only goes as far as the last request in each direction then reverses direction immediately without first going all the way to the end of the disk C LOOK Cont 7 Selecting a Disk Scheduling Algorithm SSTF is common and has a natural appeal SCAN and C SCAN perform better for systems that place a heavy load on the disk Performance depends on the number and types of requests Requests for disk service can be influenced by the fileallocation method The disk scheduling algorithm should be written as a separate module of the operating system allowing it to be replaced with a different algorithm if necessary Either SSTF or LOOK is a reasonable choice for the default algorithm Disk Management Low level formatting or physical formatting Dividing a disk into sectors that the disk controller can read and write To use a disk to hold files the operating system still needs to record its own data structures on the disk Partition the disk into one or more groups of cylinders Logical formatting or making a file system Boot block initializes system The bootstrap is stored in ROM Bootstrap loader program Methods such as sector sparing used to handle bad blocks SCSI for example maintains a list of bad blocks Replacement sector addresses e g new sector is associated for say logical block 67 If a new bad block is detected the OS is notified by controller and after reboot a new spare is assigned to that sector bad blocks are first detected during low level formatting at the factory and updated during the life time of the disk 8 MS DOS Disk Layout Swap Space Management Swap space Virtual memory uses disk space as an extension of main memory Swap space can be carved out of the normal file system or more commonly it can be in a separate disk partition more efficient Swap space management 4 3BSD allocates swap space when process starts holds text segment the program and data segment Kernel uses swap maps to track swap space use Solaris 2 allocates swap space only when a page is forced out of physical memory not when the virtual memory page is first created 9 4 3 BSD Text Segment Swap Map Swap space management 4 3BSD allocates swap space when process starts holds text segment the program and data segment Pre allocates all the needed space Text segment is fixed size so swap space is allocated in chunks of 512 KB and the remainder in 1K Kernel uses swap maps contains swap addresses to track swap space use Two per process maps text data 4 3 BSD Data Segment Swap Map Data segment map contains swap addresses for blocks of varying size 2 to the power of i x16K increments When run out of space because of growing a twice larger area is assigned 10 RAID Structure Disks used to be the least reliable components of a system RAID multiple disk drives provides reliability via redundancy RAID is arranged into six different levels RAID cont Several improvements in disk use techniques involve the use of multiple disks working cooperatively Disk striping interleaving uses a group of disks as one storage unit Each data block is broken into sub blocks stored on different disk Sub block transfer is in parallel Improves speed RAID schemes improve performance and improve the reliability of the storage system by storing redundant data Mirroring or shadowing keeps duplicate of each disk Keeps copy of each disk Block interleaved parity uses much less redundancy A small fraction of the disk space holds parity blocks E g for nine disks one could be holding parity for every eight blocks 11 Intro to RAID Levels RAID 0 only striping RAID 1 mirrored copies RAID 2 ECC codes for words RAID 3 striping combined by parity RAID 4 parity across blocks of same rank on disks RAID 5 distributed parity