Design of file system architecture with cluster

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DESIGN OF FILE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE WITH CLUSTER
FORMATION ALONG WITH MOUNT TABLE
Sheetu Sharma1
, Vikas Gupta2
1
Computer Science & Engg., AIET, Faridkot, Punjab, India
2
Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, AIET, Faridkot, Punjab, India
Abstract
Architecture for comprehensive dataset is defined as a File System. In a comprehensive cluster set, there are a large number of
servers where data are directly stored. Cluster is used to store tuples from one or more relations physically closed to other in the
database. Clustering is a way of storing data on a disc. In this proposed research work the file system architecture is maintained
with cluster formation and mount table specification. The cluster formation is an intelligent formation which works on keyword
based feature analysis on files. The related files are kept in one cluster. Along with this, the mount table is attached which is a
table, that stores the keyword information as well as other metadata related to each file contained in the system. The proposed
research work is extended in two main phases. In the first phase, the distributed architecture is defined in clusters. Once the
architecture is defined, in the second phase the user query is filtered and the keyword is extracted from it. An extracted keyword of
query is used in the hash table, to find corresponding cluster having all related files. Then all files related to that keyword are
displayed. Then upon selection of one particular file, the whole content of that file is displayed. This research work is focused on
solutions to get or retrieve data from large data source in less time and at less computation cost.
Keywords: Hadoop Distributed File System, Query Optimization, Indexing Technique, Distributed System, Cluster.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Distributed system provides distributed file system
architecture and framework for the analysis and
transformation of large data sets using the Map Reduce,
Middleware paradigm. An important characteristic of a
distributed system is the partitioning of data and
computation across many of the hosts and executing
application computations in parallel close to their data [4]. A
distributed system cluster scale’s computation capacity,
storage capacity, and IO bandwidth by simply adding
commodity servers. One of the best features of distributed
environment is a query processing for various clients and
users. Many processing queries usually need optimization
for searching purposes. Generally, the query optimizer
cannot be accessed directly by users: once queries are
submitted to the database server, and parsed by the parser,
they are then passed to the query optimizer where
optimization occurs [6]. However, some database engines
allow guiding the query optimizer with hints. Most query
optimizers represent query plans as a tree of “plan nodes”. A
plan node encapsulates a single operation that is required to
execute the query. The nodes are arranged as a tree, in
which intermediate results from the bottom of the tree. Each
node has zero or more child nodes-those are nodes whose
outputs are fed as input to the parent node. For example, a
join node will have two child nodes, which represent the two
join operands, where sort node would have a single child
node. The leaves of the tree are nodes which produce results
by scanning the disk, For example by performing an index
or sequential scan [8]. Huge databases need to optimize
fetching of data so to provide fast and efficient query reply
to requested query by various users. In Our research work, a
good query optimization process which will be used in a
distributed environment [2].
Query optimization is a function of many relational database
management systems. The query optimizer attempts to
determine the most efficient way to execute a given query
by considering the possible query plans [6]. A query is
requested for information from a database. It can be as
“finding the address of a person with AA123-890,” or more
complex like “finding the average salary of all the employed
married ladies in London between ages 25 to 35, that earn
less than their husband”, Query result is generated by
accessing relevant database data and manipulating it in a
way that yields the requested information .The purpose of
query optimization, which is an automated process, is to find
the way to process a given query in minimum time [2]. Thus
query optimization typically tries to approximate the
optimum by comparing several commonsense alternatives,
to provide in a reasonable time a “good enough” plan which
typically does not deviate much from the best possible result
[2, 8]. The descriptive data have been always in the form of
document and these documents exist in different file
formats. When the work is performed for particular
enterprise, it contains a vast collection of files over the
system. In such case the management of these files and
handling the file system query is itself a challenging task
[19]. Query optimization based architecture is proposed in
this thesis research work to define file system architecture.
This is quite beneficial as:-
1. As the work is based on a cluster based, it reduces the
size of a database query. Instead of maintaining the file

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system individually, the management of the specific
clusters is easy to represent.
2. The cluster definition enables the easy migration of
the sub-file system on different location physically.
3. While working on distributed systems, such kind of
architecture is more beneficial to maintain the cluster
location wise.
4. As the cluster formation is keyword based, the query
analysis easily identify the required cluster.
5. As the mount table is maintained for each cluster to
maintain the cluster data, the query processing will be
more effective.
2. OBJECTIVES OF RESEARCH WORK
The main work presented in the system is to define file
system architecture with query optimization. The research
work is divided in terms of some research objectives given
as under.
1. Design of File System architecture along with
cluster formation and Mount table’s specification.
2. Implementation of keyword based clustering.
3. Generation of separate mount table for each cluster.
4. Implementation of the client side, respective to
query fetching, analysis and getting results based
on analysis.
5. Fetching data from the query optimization process.
3. PROBLEM FORMULATION
The Query optimizer is very important part of data mining
to get desired data from a large source of data. Query
optimizer which makes the user’s query in a format which
helps in the further process of fetching data in lesser time.
The file system is one of the most traditional and widely
used mechanisms to maintain the user data in the form of
distributed system [4]. In this research work file system
architecture has been proposed based on query optimization
process. This is basically designed for large file dataset
where the user has terabytes or petabytes of data in the form
of files and there is a need to avail the information to the
user effectively on request. The presented work is defined in
two stages. In the first stage the file system architecture is
defined and on second stage the effective user query is
defined. To maintain the data effectively a clustered file
system is defined. In this presented approach complete file
system will be divided in the form of clusters and the cluster
definitions are based on keyword analysis over the system.
Each cluster separately maintains a mount table to keep
track of the files presented in the system.
As the user passes a query to the system, at first the keyword
extract from the query is to be performed [3]. Based on the
keyword based match at first the relative cluster is to be
identified. Now to retrieve the relative file content, a search
is to be implemented on mount table that contains the
descriptive information along with location specification for
each file of the cluster. From this mount table, search the
actual path of the related contents is to be displayed to the
user. The query processing is performed in two steps, first to
identify the cluster and second to identify the file location
and other information within the cluster.
4. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
In this proposed work a keyword based analysis is available
to generate the cluster of distributed file system. The
proposed work is an intelligent system which searches items
with optimized query and in which the similar files are
maintained in one cluster. To keep the file system
information, a mount table is maintained that stores the file
keywords as well as the metadata related to each file
contained in the system. In the second phase the user query
is processed and the keyword extraction is performed. Based
on keyword analysis the cluster will be selected and the
query is performed on that specific cluster.
4.1 Source of Data
In this proposed work, we need some dummy dataset or the
file set on which the work will be presented. This kind of
data can be online or offline. Along with the files user also
need the metadata related to the file system. This kind of
dataset can be driven either by using the global or the
private web or we can take the file system used by the
earlier researchers. The file system must have the following
properties
1. A Large file system with large number of files.
2. Metadata of files should be available.
3. Files should be in a query based format such as text
files.
4. Files must be capable of performing different
operations such as read, write operations.
5. IMPLEMENTATION
The presented work is about the generation of file system
architecture. The work is based on a distributed cluster
based architecture in which the keyword analysis over the
file is used for cluster generation. To provide the effective
processing, each cluster maintains a mount table. As the
query is passed by the user, at first the cluster identification
is performed and just after that mount table is processed to
get the file path and the related Meta data.
To solve the problem of distributed file system processing a
novel clustered approach is suggested [19], as shown in
Fig.-1, the user sends a request to the global query interface
of distributed file system; the query is received by the query
analyzer which analyzes the query with the help of global
schema. Query analyzer breaks the query into sub-queries
and sends to cost optimizer for cost estimation of sub
queries. Cost optimizer analyzes the cost with the help of
data dictionary. Query distributor has the main
responsibility to receive sub-queries from the cost optimizer
and sends to the appropriate local optimizer of local site of a
cluster. A mount table is placed between local optimizer and
cluster. Mount tables are like the index of the book which
contains all the information of the files like location and
extension. A local and global query optimizer concept
comes in multidatabase systems (MDBS) and local database

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system (LDBS). Here when a large number of databases
integrated it becomes MDBS. Now when a user puts a query
then that query is optimized by Global Query Optimizer to
know on which database to go among various heterogeneous
databases. After going to one database, then local query
optimizer works to find now from which table retrieves data.
The query will be performed on the mount table and
relatively the file found from the system along with file
information.
Fig -1: Modified Hadoop Framework for Data Management.
6. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Steps to be followed to get the desired data from server as
shown in Fig-2:
Fig -2: Steps to Get Desired Data
Step (1), Fig-3 shows the GUI where the user can enter any
type of query. In this interface a search box is visible and the
text box is visible, where user can type the query to be
answered. Just adjacent to it, there is a submit button. After
entering the query in the text box then submit button is
clicked which in turn performs the action.
Fig-3: Graphical User Interface for User
Step (2), Fig-4 shows the data that has been entered For
Example the question is “what is webmining?” Or anything
else which the user wants. The first step is that the user’s
entered query is optimized by the query optimizer. It breaks
the whole query into small units. All the extra words, special
character and the punctuation in the query are rejected. For
Example words like “what”, “is” and the punctuation i.e. the
“?”. The remaining keyword i.e. “webmining” is left in the
search box. Then the submit button is clicked to perform its
actions.
Fig-4: Typing a query in GUI

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Step (3), Fig-5 illustrates that keyword analysis then
matches the related keyword i.e. is “webmining” with the
related cluster and retrieves all the files from the cluster and
provides to the user. So that user may select the most
appropriate file according to their need.
Fig-5: Displaying the most suitable files related to the query
keyword
Then all the files are displayed to the user and user selects
the file which is requested by user. Now double click on it,
to see the contents of that particular file.
Step (4), Fig-6 shows the whole contents of the selected file
with scroll option facility. Any type of data can be retrieved
and shown to users as per its requirements.
Fig -6: Content of the selected file is displayed.
7. CONCLUSIONS
The Proposed research work focus on, how data is retrieved
from large servers in a less span of time and at less cost.
Data management is a tough task when data is present in
very large amount [19].It is quite difficult to get the desired
data in a short time and at less cost.
To achieve the objective a Modified Hadoop framework is
made where data is distributed on various servers. In every
server there is group of clusters and each cluster have the
same type of data in different formats. Map table is
maintained with every cluster which stores path of every file
present in a cluster, and so that whenever a user selects the
file, that file is read from the server and is displayed to the
user. To retrieve the file from the server following steps are
followed:
1. Query optimizer which breaks the query into words.
2. The irrelevant words are removed from the query.
3. The remaining word in the query is searched by the
keyword analysis of the related clusters and keyword
cluster is used in the hash table, to find corresponding
cluster having all related files.
4. All files related to that keyword are displayed.
5. Then upon selection of one particular file, the whole
content of that file is displayed.
In order to compare the time consumed in answering the
query through Modified Hadoop and Hadoop system
Interface. The example of “Webmining” has been taken up.
As shown in table-1, there are five files present in a
“webmining” cluster namely: Rs, srs, advantages of
webmining, disadvantages of webmining, webmining is
datamining.
Table-1: Comparison of Time Consumed by Modified
Hadoop Vs Hadoop
Webmining
Cluster
(Files)
Modified
Hadoop
(Time
Consumed)
Hadoop
(Time
Consumed)
Rs 858millesecs 2730millesecs
Srs 905millesecs 2762millesecs
Advantages of
webmining
796millesecs 1170millesecs
Disadvantages
of webmining
795millesecs 2995millesecs
Webmining is
datamining
390millesecs 1404millisecs
So it is concluded that the time consumed in answering a
query by Proposed Hadoop quite less then the time
consumed in answering a query by Hadoop system.
The utilization of resources to execute the query is the
Computation cost- the resources are like Processor, RAM as
shown in table-2. The data very well present that the
computation cost is quite less using Modified Hadoop as
compared to Hadoop system. In Modified Hadoop the
processor is used as 2.3GHz as compared to 4.30GHz in
Hadoop. In Modified Hadoop, RAM consumes 2GB as
compared to 3GB in Hadoop as shown in a Table 2.The
memory consumed is lesser and the processing is done at a
faster rate as compared to Hadoop.

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Table -2: Comparison of Resources that are used in
Modified Hadoop Vs Hadoop
Framework Processor(GHz) RAM(GB)
Proposed Hadoop 2.3 2
Hadoop 4.2 3
The resources used in Modified Hadoop and Hadoop system
are graphically represented as shown in a Chart -1:
Chart -1: Graphical Representation of Resources that are
used in Both System
So at the end the results are provided in shorter period and at
a lesser cost which is the objective of the proposed research
work.
FUTURE SCOPE
In future, this research can be enhanced by implementing
the distributed database operations on fetching process of
query optimization by introduction of fuzzy neural selection
of dataset while selection of content for various operations
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