I want to say that I am not doing enough justice to what I have written here. The cache is populated and unpopulated over an LRU (least recently used) algorithm to keep things efficiently. It stores the indexed mapping of the Block IDs-to-Object IDs (though not the entire map), metadata related to the blocks and objects allocated as well as frequently requested object data and written data blocks. It has several functions in order to improve the responsiveness to the Object Store.
Lastly, Zetta Cache is a quasi, Unix-like filesystem implementation that should run on persistent storage media. Zetta Object also manages the S3 communication. This is to improve performance, especially when dealing with small block sized (< 16KB) transactional workloads. Several blocks may be coalesced into one object. Note that the mapping of blocks to objects are not 1-1 pairing. It handles the pairing of both worlds, and the mapping of Block IDs to Object IDs. The Zetta Object is critical because it is the “translator” or the bridge between ZFS filesystem and the object storage. Instead of the usual hard disk drives or SSDs or block devices, the Object Store vdev links the block I/O calls, reads and writes to the ZFS I/O scheduler (ZIO) to the object storage backend.īetween the Object Store and the object storage back end is the Zetta Object which converts the block I/O requests into object storage requests. There is a new vdev (virtual device) structure in OpenZFS called Object Store. These are the 3 new foundational ZFS components, named Object Store, Zetta Object and Zetta Cache. I have highlighted 3 green boxes in the architecture diagram above. OpenZFS architecture with object storage integration Newcomer components In the recently concluded OpenZFS Developer Summit 2021, one of the topics was “ ZFS on Object Storage“, and the short answer is a resounding YES! Can OpenZFS integrate with an S3 object storage backend? This blog looks into the burning question. It is about what is coming, and eventually AWS FSx for OpenZFS could expand into AWS’s proficient S3 storage as well. This is one hell of a filesystem.īut this blog isn’t about AWS FSx for OpenZFS with block storage. It is an absolutely joy (for me) to see the open source OpenZFS filesystem getting the validation and recognization from AWS. I am assuming the AWS OpenZFS uses EBS as the block storage backend, given the announcement that it can deliver 4GB/sec of throughput and 160,000 IOPS from the “drives” without caching. How the OpenZFS is provisioned to the AWS clients is well documented in this blog here. The highly scalable OpenZFS filesystem can provide high throughput and IOPS bandwidth to Amazon EC2, ECS, EKS and VMware® Cloud on AWS.
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This is the 4th managed service under the Amazon FSx umbrella, joining NetApp® ONTAP™, Lustre and Windows File Server.
At AWS re:Invent last week, Amazon Web Services announced Amazon FSx for OpenZFS.
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