作者位次 #13/17FAST 2026Oral· Storage & File Systems
How Soon is Now? Preloading Images for Virtual Disks with ThinkAhead
Xinqi Chen · Yu Zhang · Erci Xu · Changhong Wang · Jifei Yi · Qiuping Wang · Shizhuo Sun · Zhongyu Wang · Haonan Wu · Junping Wu · Hailin Peng · Rong Liu · Yinhu Wang · Jiaji Zhu · Jiesheng Wu · Guangtao Xue · Patrick P. C. Lee
摘要
Efficient cloud computing relies on high-performance Elastic Block Storage (EBS) services, where virtual disk (VD) image loading significantly affects user experience. While the commonly used "lazy loading" approach reduces cold-start time from minutes to sub-seconds, our trace analysis of around...