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2010
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DFS: A File System for Virtualized Flash Storage
This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of Direct File System (DFS) for virtualized flash storage. of using traditional layers of abstraction, our layers of ...
William K. Josephson, Lars Ailo Bongo, David Flynn...
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2010
13 years 6 months ago
Understanding Latent Sector Errors and How to Protect Against Them
Latent sector errors (LSEs) refer to the situation where particular sectors on a drive become inaccessible. LSEs are a critical factor in data reliability, since a single LSE can ...
Bianca Schroeder, Sotirios Damouras, Phillipa Gill
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2010
13 years 6 months ago
Accelerating Parallel Analysis of Scientific Simulation Data via Zazen
Tiankai Tu, Charles A. Rendleman, Patrick J. Mille...
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2010
13 years 6 months ago
Membrane: Operating System Support for Restartable File Systems
We introduce Membrane, a set of changes to the operating system to support restartable file systems. Membrane allows an operating system to tolerate a broad class of file system f...
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Sriram Subramanian, Abhi...
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2010
13 years 6 months ago
quFiles: The Right File at the Right Time
is a unifying abstraction that simplifies data management by encapsulating different physical representations of the same logical data. Similar to a quBit (quantum bit), the parti...
Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Jason Flinn, Edmund B. Nigh...
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2010
13 years 6 months ago
Write Endurance in Flash Drives: Measurements and Analysis
We examine the write endurance of USB flash drives using a range of approaches: chip-level measurements, reverse engineering, timing analysis, whole-device endurance testing, and ...
Simona Boboila, Peter Desnoyers
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2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Clean-Slate Look at Disk Scrubbing
A number of techniques have been proposed to reduce the risk of data loss in hard-drives, from redundant disks (e.g., RAID systems) to error coding within individual drives. Disk ...
Alina Oprea, Ari Juels
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2010
13 years 6 months ago
BASIL: Automated IO Load Balancing Across Storage Devices
Live migration of virtual hard disks between storage arrays has long been possible. However, there is a dearth of online tools to perform automated virtual disk placement and IO l...
Ajay Gulati, Chethan Kumar, Irfan Ahmad, Karan Kum...
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2010
13 years 6 months ago
Panache: A Parallel File System Cache for Global File Access
Cloud computing promises large-scale and seamless access to vast quantities of data across the globe. Applications will demand the reliability, consistency, and performance of a t...
Marc Eshel, Roger L. Haskin, Dean Hildebrand, Mano...
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2010
13 years 6 months ago
HydraFS: A High-Throughput File System for the HYDRAstor Content-Addressable Storage System
A content-addressable storage (CAS) system is a valuable tool for building storage solutions, providing efficiency by automatically detecting and eliminating duplicate blocks; it ...
Cristian Ungureanu, Benjamin Atkin, Akshat Aranya,...