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2009
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A Performance Evaluation and Examination of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries for Storage
Over the past five years, large-scale storage installations have required fault-protection beyond RAID-5, leading to a flurry of research on and development of erasure codes for m...
James S. Plank, Jianqiang Luo, Catherine D. Schuma...
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2009
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Tiered Fault Tolerance for Long-Term Integrity
Fault-tolerant services typically make assumptions about the type and maximum number of faults that they can tolerate while providing their correctness guarantees; when such a fau...
Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker, Jo...
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2009
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CLIC: CLient-Informed Caching for Storage Servers
Xin Liu, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, Xuhui Li
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2009
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Generating Realistic Impressions for File-System Benchmarking
The performance of file systems and related software depends on characteristics of the underlying file-system image (i.e., file-system metadata and file contents). Unfortunately, ...
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. ...
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2009
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Smoke and Mirrors: Reflecting Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance
The Smoke and Mirrors File System (SMFS) mirrors files at geographically remote datacenter locations with negligible impact on file system performance at the primary site, and min...
Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh, Tudor Marian, ...
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2009
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Understanding Customer Problem Troubleshooting from Storage System Logs
Weihang Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Shankar Pasupathy, Ar...
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2009
13 years 2 months ago
Enabling Transactional File Access via Lightweight Kernel Extensions
Transactions offer a powerful data-access method used in many databases today trough a specialized query API. User applications, however, use a different fileaccess API (POSIX) wh...
Richard P. Spillane, Sachin Gaikwad, Manjunath Chi...
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2009
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Dynamic Resource Allocation for Database Servers Running on Virtual Storage
We introduce a novel multi-resource allocator to dynamically allocate resources for database servers running on virtual storage. Multi-resource allocation involves proportioning t...
Gokul Soundararajan, Daniel Lupei, Saeed Ghanbari,...
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2009
13 years 2 months ago
The Case for Browser Provenance
In our increasingly networked world, web browsers are important applications. Originally an interface tool for accessing distributed documents, browsers have become ubiquitous, in...
Daniel W. Margo, Margo I. Seltzer
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2009
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DIADS: Addressing the "My-Problem-or-Yours" Syndrome with Integrated SAN and Database Diagnosis
We present DIADS, an integrated DIAgnosis tool for Databases and Storage area networks (SANs). Existing diagnosis tools in this domain have a database-only (e.g., [11]) or SAN-onl...
Shivnath Babu, Nedyalko Borisov, Sandeep Uttamchan...