雲端存儲服務如亞馬遜簡易儲存服務因簡化架構設計以及降低維護成本的特性，在近年來於使用者以及服務提供商中越來越受歡迎。但因其與傳統POSIX介面存儲系統架構上的不同，使用者並無法直接於其上運行應用程式。因此，越來越多研究開始致力開發探討將雲端存儲及本地POSIX存儲連結，希望能同時利用兩者帶來的好處。
本研究討論了支援部分修改(partial modification)及隨機存取(random access)等POSIX標準指令於雲端存儲上實作時所遭遇的挑戰與困難。雖然時至今日已有一些研究提出了使用固定大小分隔存放的方式來提升系統效能，但在實務上，需要更嚴謹地決定分隔大小。否則將因分隔過大增加大量無用資料傳輸量，或分隔過小觸發過多雲存取請求，降低整體系統效能。
此外，在先前研究中，我們已提出理論系統架構以及能夠線上分析I/O分布範式的啟發式策略，以動態地調整雲端資料分隔大小與分布來達到更好的效能。在此研究中，我們將談討啟發式策略的限制，並介紹模型分析策略以更精確的數學模型來描述及調整雲資料分布。最後，以實驗證明我們的策略確實能夠動態調整雲端資料分隔分布，且與固定大小分布策略相比增進7% ~ 106%的效能。

Cloud storage services, like Amazon S3, has become more and more popular for users and enterprises due to its simplified architecture design and reduced maintenance cost.
However, due to architecture differences between POSIX-interfaced file systems and cloud storage systems,
users can not transparently run most applications directly on a cloud storage system.
Therefore, more and more researchers are interested in cloud-backed file systems aiming to deliver a system that leverage the best of both POSIX-interface and cloud storage.

In this thesis, we discuss the challenges of supporting partial modification and random access of POSIX-interface operations on the cloud storage.
Existing frameworks have proposed fixed-sized partitioning strategies on a file to improve the performance.
However, deciding the size of these split files, so called blocks, is not trivial.
In more detailed, too large blocks may contain more irrelevant data for serving an I/O request which introduces more transferring overhead.
On the contrary, too small blocks may trigger more cloud requests to serve an I/O request which lowers the network utilization in the latency way.

In our previous work, we have proposed a theoretical system architecture and a heuristic method to dynamically capture the I/O access pattern of users' requests and adjust file blocks on the cloud to achieve better performance.
In this thesis, we show the limitation of the heuristic method, further improve the method by a mathematical model and introduced a model-based partitioning strategy.
We show that our strategies can analysis I/O patterns and adjust the blocks on the cloud to achieve better performance.
Our evaluation shows that our strategies can improve the overall performance by 7\% to 106\% compared to the static fixed-sized partitioning strategy.

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