An efficient and distributed scheme for file mapping or file lookup scheme is critical in decentralizing metadata management within a group of metadata servers. This paper present...
Striping is a technique that distributes file content over multiple storage servers and thereby enables parallel access. In order to be able to provide a consistent view across fi...
Distributed storage systems often introduce redundancy to increase reliability. When coding is used, the repair problem arises: if a node storing encoded information fails, in orde...
Alexandros G. Dimakis, Kannan Ramchandran, Yunnan ...
We describe a technique called lookaside caching that combines the strengths of distributed file systems and portable storage devices, while negating their weaknesses. In spite of...
Niraj Tolia, Jan Harkes, Michael Kozuch, Mahadev S...
This paper reviews literature on scalable data structures for searching in a distributed computing environment. Starting with a system where one server manages a file of a given s...