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Efficient Object Storage Journaling in a Distributed Parallel File System
Journaling is a widely used technique to increase file system robustness against metadata and/or data corruptions. While the overhead of journaling can be masked by the page cache...
Sarp Oral, Feiyi Wang, David Dillow, Galen M. Ship...
HPDC
2000
IEEE
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Failure-Atomic File Access in an Interposed Network Storage System
This paper presents a recovery protocol for block I/O operations in Slice, a storage system architecture for highspeed LANs incorporating network-attached block storage. The goal ...
Darrell C. Anderson, Jeffrey S. Chase
IPPS
1997
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Designing Efficient Distributed Algorithms Using Sampling Techniques
In this paper we show the power of sampling techniques in designing efficient distributed algorithms. In particular, we show that using sampling techniques, on some networks, sele...
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, David S. L. Wei
USENIX
2008
13 years 8 months ago
FlexVol: Flexible, Efficient File Volume Virtualization in WAFL
zation is a well-known method of abstracting physical resources and of separating the manipulation and use of logical resources from their underlying implementation. We have used ...
John K. Edwards, Daniel Ellard, Craig Everhart, Ro...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Improving file system reliability with I/O shepherding
We introduce a new reliability infrastructure for file systems called I/O shepherding. I/O shepherding allows a file system developer to craft nuanced reliability policies to de...
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Swetha Kri...