The Direct Access File System (DAFS) is a distributed file system built on top of direct-access transports (DAT). Direct-access transports are characterized by using remote direct...
Alexandra Fedorova, Margo I. Seltzer, Kostas Magou...
We investigate in this paper the performance of a file sharing principle similar to the one implemented by eMule. For this purpose, we consider a system composed of N peers becomi...
Florian Simatos, Philippe Robert, Fabrice Guillemi...
The vulnerability of computer nodes due to component failures is a critical issue for cluster-based file systems. This paper studies the development and deployment of mirroring in...
Large grid installations require global access to massive data stores. Parallel file systems give high throughput within a LAN, but cross-site data transfers lack seamless integra...
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...
Ashok Anand, Sayandeep Sen, Andrew Krioukov, Flore...