RAID architectures have been used for more than two decades to recover data upon disk failures. Disk failure is just one of the many causes of damaged data. Data can be damaged by...
In this paper we analyze the I/O access patterns of a widely-used biological sequence search tool and implement two variations that employ parallel-I/O for data access based on PV...
Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Xiao Qin, David R. Swanson
We present the Network File System with Cluster Delegation (NFS-CD), an enhancement to the NFSv4 that reduces server load and increases the scalability of distributed file systems ...
Unchecked errors are especially pernicious in operating system file management code. Transient or permanent hardware failures are inevitable, and error-management bugs at the fi...
Legacy network file services such as NFS, SMB/CIFS, and AFP changed the way we worked. File services running on crossplatform networks allowed us to save our files on remote syste...