Abstract

Imaging an operating system onto a server is an extensive and time consuming process, which commonly taking several minutes to boot. For a testbed administrator, loading an image onto a device is one of the slowest yet most relied upon tasks that a testbed must complete prior to starting an experiment. To minimize wait times for disk loading, as well as to streamline the process of image loading, we introduce Sled, a system-loader for ephemeral devices, that uses warm-booting to quickly image devices. Sled is able to provision a new operating system in under a minute, and is 10 times faster than previous methods of image loading.

Date

April 29, 2019

Authors

Lincoln Thurlow, Ryan Goodfellow, Stephen Schwab

Conference

IEEE INFOCOM 2019-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)

Pages

913-914

Publisher

IEEE