OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
The lowly state of the art for file system checking and repair does not match what is needed to keep important data available for users. Current file system checkers, such as e2fs...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Device drivers typically execute in supervisor mode and thus must be fully trusted. This paper describes how to move them out of the trusted computing base, by running them withou...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Concurrency is pervasive in large systems. Unexpected interference among threads often results in "Heisenbugs" that are extremely difficult to reproduce and eliminate. W...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Library-based record and replay tools aim to reproduce an application's execution by recording the results of selected functions in a log and during replay returning the resu...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Virtual machine monitors (VMMs) are a popular platform for Internet hosting centers and cloud-based compute services. By multiplexing hardware resources among virtual machines (VM...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
We present a new scheme for performing binary translation that produces code comparable to or better than existing binary translators with much less engineering effort. Instead of...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
We present Quanto, a network-wide time and energy profiler for embedded network devices. By combining well-defined interfaces for hardware power states, fast high-resolution energ...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
We introduce range writes, a simple but powerful change to the disk interface that removes the need for file system micromanagement of block placement. By allowing a file system t...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Bursts in data center workloads are a real problem for storage subsystems. Data volumes can experience peak I/O request rates that are over an order of magnitude higher than avera...