Manylogs: Improved CMR/SMR disk bandwidth and faster durability with scattered logs

Abstract

We introduce manylogs, a simple and novel concept of logging that deploys many scattered logs on disk such that small random writes can be appended into any log near the current disk head position (e.g., the location of last large I/O). The benefit is two-fold: the small writes attain fast durability while the large I/Os still sustain large bandwidth.