Mod5MassStorage Disks

Module 5: Mass-Storage
Systems
Operating System Concepts – 9th Edition Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©

Objectives
 To describe the physical structure of secondary storage devices and its effects on the uses of the devices
 To explain the performance characteristics of mass-storage devices
 To evaluate disk scheduling algorithms
 To discuss operating-system services provided for mass storage, including RAID
Operating System Concepts – 9th Edition 10.2 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©
Overview of Mass Storage Structure
 Magnetic disks provide bulk of secondary storage of modern computers
 Drives rotate at 60 to 250 times per second
 Transfer rate is rate at which data flow between drive and computer
 Positioning time (random-access time) is time to move disk arm to desired cylinder (seek time) and
time for desired sector to rotate under the disk head (rotational latency)
 Head crash results from disk head making contact with the disk surface
 That’s bad
 Disks can be removable
 Drive attached to computer via I/O bus
 Busses vary, including EIDE, ATA, SATA, USB, Fibre Channel, SCSI, SAS, Firewire
 Host controller in computer uses bus to talk to disk controller built into drive or storage array
Moving-head Disk Mechanism
Magnetic Disks
 Platters range from .85” to 14” (historically)
 Commonly 3.5”, 2.5”, and 1.8”
 Range from 30GB to 3TB per drive
 Performance
 Transfer Rate – theoretical – 6 Gb/sec
 Effective Transfer Rate – real – 1Gb/sec
 Seek time from 3ms to 12ms – 9ms common for desktop
drives
 Average seek time measured or calculated based on 1/3 of
tracks
 Latency based on spindle speed
 1/(RPM * 60)
 Average latency = ½ latency
(From Wikipedia)
Magnetic Disk Performance
 Access Latency = Average access time = average seek time + average latency
 For fastest disk 3ms + 2ms = 5ms
 For slow disk 9ms + 5.56ms = 14.56ms
 Average I/O time = average access time + (amount to transfer / transfer rate) + controller overhead
 For example to transfer a 4KB block on a 7200 RPM disk with a 5ms average seek time, 1Gb/sec transfer rate
with a .1ms controller overhead =
 5ms + 4.17ms + 4KB / 1Gb/sec + 0.1ms =
 9.27ms + 4 / 131072 sec =
 9.27ms + .12ms = 9.39ms
Solid-State Disks
 Nonvolatile memory used like a hard drive
 Many technology variations
 Can be more reliable than HDDs
 More expensive per MB
 Maybe have shorter life span
 Less capacity
 But much faster
 Busses can be too slow ->
connect directly to PCI for
example
 No moving parts, so no seek
time or rotational latency
Magnetic Tape
 Was early secondary-storage medium
 Evolved from open spools to cartridges
 Relatively permanent and holds large quantities of data
 Access time slow
 Random access ~1000 times slower than disk
 Mainly used for backup, storage of infrequently-used data, transfer medium between
systems
 Kept in spool and wound or rewound past read-write head
 Once data under head, transfer rates comparable to disk
 140MB/sec and greater
 200GB to 1.5TB typical storage
 Common technologies are LTO-{3,4,5} and T10000
Disk Structure
 Disk drives are addressed as large 1-dimensional arrays of logical blocks, where the logical block is the
smallest unit of transfer
 Low-level formatting creates logical blocks on physical media

 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
 Logical to physical address should be easy
 Except for bad sectors
 Non-constant # of sectors per track via constant angular velocity
Disk Attachment
 Host-attached storage accessed through I/O ports talking to I/O busses
 SCSI itself is a bus, up to 16 devices on one cable, SCSI initiator requests operation and SCSI targets perform
tasks
 Each target can have up to 8 logical units (disks attached to device controller)
 FC is high-speed serial architecture

 Can be switched fabric with 24-bit address space – the basis of storage area networks (SANs) in which
many hosts attach to many storage units
 I/O directed to bus ID, device ID, logical unit (LUN)
Storage Array
 Can just attach disks, or arrays of disks
 Storage Array has controller(s), provides features to attached host(s)

 Ports to connect hosts to array
 Memory, controlling software (sometimes NVRAM, etc)
 A few to thousands of disks
 RAID, hot spares, hot swap (discussed later)
 Shared storage -> more efficiency
 Features found in some file systems
 Snaphots, clones, thin provisioning, replication,
deduplication, etc
Storage Area Network
 Common in large storage environments
 Multiple hosts attached to multiple storage arrays - flexible
Storage Area Network (Cont.)
 SAN is one or more storage arrays
 Connected to one or more Fibre Channel switches
 Hosts also attach to the switches
 Storage made available via LUN Masking from specific arrays to specific servers
 Easy to add or remove storage, add new host and allocate it storage
 Over low-latency Fibre Channel fabric
 Why have separate storage networks and communications networks?

 Consider iSCSI, FCOE
Network-Attached Storage
 Network-attached storage (NAS) is storage made available over a network rather than over a local
connection (such as a bus)
 Remotely attaching to file systems
 NFS and CIFS are common protocols
 Implemented via remote procedure calls (RPCs) between host and storage over typically TCP or UDP on
IP network
 iSCSI protocol uses IP network to carry the SCSI protocol
 Remotely attaching to devices (blocks)
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 are 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
Disk Scheduling (Cont.)
 There are many sources of disk I/O request
 OS
 System processes
 Users processes
 I/O request includes input or output mode, disk address, memory address, number of sectors to transfer
 OS maintains queue of requests, per disk or device
 Idle disk can immediately work on I/O request, busy disk means work must queue
 Optimization algorithms only make sense when a queue exists
 Note that drive controllers have small buffers and can manage a queue of I/O requests (of varying “depth”)
 Several algorithms exist to schedule the servicing of disk I/O requests

 The analysis is true for one or many platters
 We illustrate scheduling algorithms 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
SSTF
(Short Seek-Time First)
 Shortest Seek Time First 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.)
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.
 SCAN algorithm Sometimes called the elevator algorithm
 Illustration shows total head movement of 236 cylinders
 But note that if requests are uniformly dense, largest density at other end of disk and those wait the
longest
SCAN (Cont.)
C-SCAN
(Circular 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
 Total number of cylinders? 382
C-SCAN (Cont.)
C-LOOK
 LOOK a version of SCAN, C-LOOK a 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
 Total number of cylinders?
C-LOOK (Cont.)
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
 Less starvation
 Performance depends on the number and types of requests
 Requests for disk service can be influenced by the file-allocation method

 And metadata layout
 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
 What about rotational latency?

 Difficult for OS to calculate
 How does disk-based queuing effect OS queue ordering efforts?
Disk Formatting
 Low-level formatting, or physical formatting — Dividing a disk into sectors that the disk controller can read and
write
 Each sector can hold header information, plus data, plus error correction code (ECC)
 Usually 512 bytes of data but can be selectable
 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, each treated as a logical disk
 Logical formatting or “making a file system”
 To increase efficiency most file systems group blocks into clusters
 Disk I/O done in blocks
 File I/O done in clusters
 Raw disk access for apps that want to do their own block management, keep OS out of the way (databases for
example)
 Boot block initializes system
 The bootstrap is stored in ROM
 Bootstrap loader program stored in boot blocks of boot partition
 Methods such as sector sparing used to handle bad blocks

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Module 5: Mass-Storage

Operating System Concepts – 9th Edition Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©

 To explain the performance characteristics of mass-storage devices

 To evaluate disk scheduling algorithms

 To discuss operating-system services provided for mass storage, including RAID

 Low-level formatting creates logical blocks on physical media

 FC is high-speed serial architecture

 I/O directed to bus ID, device ID, logical unit (LUN)

 Storage Array has controller(s), provides features to attached host(s)

 Multiple hosts attached to multiple storage arrays - flexible

 Hosts also attach to the switches

 Why have separate storage networks and communications networks?

 Access time has two major components

 Seek time  seek distance

 Several algorithms exist to schedule the servicing of disk I/O requests

98, 183, 37, 122, 14, 124, 65, 67

 SCAN algorithm Sometimes called the elevator algorithm

 Illustration shows total head movement of 236 cylinders

 Total number of cylinders?

 Performance depends on the number and types of requests

 Requests for disk service can be influenced by the file-allocation method

 Either SSTF or LOOK is a reasonable choice for the default algorithm

 What about rotational latency?

 How does disk-based queuing effect OS queue ordering efforts?

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