硬碟的單位面積儲存容量已經快達到物理上的限制，而疊瓦式磁紀錄可以使用現有硬碟技術、並快速解決該問題的新科技。在疊瓦式磁紀錄硬碟中、因為循序寫入限制的緣故，通常會配置一個永久快取(或稱作日誌型快取)以避免大量的讀取-修改-寫回的操作造成的寫入放大。在硬碟上使用循序寫入的日誌型快取有其限制，因此我們需要一個針對循序寫入特性所設計的日誌型快取，以增進疊瓦式磁紀錄硬碟的使用效能。
在這篇論文中，我們提出一個針對疊瓦式磁紀錄硬碟特性所設計的日誌型快取，在空間管理上、我們劃分為兩部分：靜態配置的固定快取以及動態配置的自由快取，透過自由快取的分配、我們能針對所需的位址分配更多空間，並延長熱資料留在快取內的時間，以達到減少垃圾回收的目的；而在垃圾回收設計的機制上、我們能在每次垃圾回收時都在最短時間內清出最多空間。
我們實作我們的日誌型快取設計在Kernel module所模擬的疊瓦式磁紀錄硬碟上，實驗結果顯示在垃圾回收的相關測量條件下、我們的設計都能有效改善垃圾回收的效率與減少額外的負荷，而在實際上的效能表現、我們的方法在不同的負載應用下、平均能降低19%的垃圾回收延遲與17%的平均寫入延遲。

The areal density of hard disks is reaching the limit. Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) is one of the promising solutions that further extends the areal density but also inherits existing hard disk technology. The design nature of SMR introduces write amplification due to the read-modify-write (RMW) operation when writing on overlapping tracks. In order to lower the impact of write amplification, persistent cache is often used on drive-managed to avoid frequent RMW operations. The cache with sequential-write property on SMR disks needs a new solution to improve SMR disks performance.
In this dissertation, we propose a log-based cache design for sequential-write-constrained properties of SMR disks. The cache is divided into two parts, static cache for static allocation and free cache for dynamic allocation. The free cache is dynamically allocated for the data to be written when the static cache is full, thus extend the period of time hot data stay in the cache and reduce the time taken by garbage collection (GC). The log-based cache design also uses cost-benefit strategy during GC to perform most efficient reclaim.
We implement log-based cache design in a kernel-based SMR disk simulator. The experiments demonstrate an improvement on the GC performance and a reduction on the overhead. The log-based cache design improves GC latency by 19% and average write latency by 17% on average under different workload.

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