Research Article

A Hardware Filesystem Implementation with Multidisk Support

Table 1

HWFS sequential read/write execution time in simulation with different block sizes.

ReadWrite
File Size (Bytes) 64 B256 B512 B64 B 256 B 512 B

1 KB 4.24  s 5.32  s 7.81  s 5.47  s 9.24  s 15.52  s
10 KB 32.56  s 32.45  s 32.39  s 33.02  s 34.26  s 36.6  s
100 KB 299.2  s 268.6  s 263  s 293.4  s 270.3  s 269.3  s
1 MB 3.03 ms 2.71 ms 2.67 ms 2.96 ms 2.7 ms 2.65 ms
10 MB 30.12 ms 26.8 ms 26.6 ms 29.6 ms 26.5 ms 26.5 ms
100 MB 300.4 ms 266.4 ms 264.3 ms 295 ms 263 ms 262.5 ms
1 GB 2.98 s 2.7 s 2.69 s 2.96 s 2.65 s 2.63 s
5 GB 14.6 s 13.6 s 13.5 s 14.4 s 13.2 s 13 s