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2009
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Perspective: Semantic Data Management for the Home
Perspective is a storage system designed for the home, with the decentralization and flexibility sought by home users and a new semantic filesystem construct, the view, to simplif...
Brandon Salmon, Steven W. Schlosser, Lorrie Faith ...
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2009
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Towards Semantics for Provenance Security
Provenance records the history of data. Careless use of provenance may violate the security policies of data. Moreover, the provenance itself may be sensitive information, necessi...
Stephen Chong
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2009
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CA-NFS: A Congestion-Aware Network File System
We develop a holistic framework for adaptively scheduling asynchronous requests in distributed file systems. The system is holistic in that it manages all resources, including net...
Alexandros Batsakis, Randal C. Burns, Arkady Kanev...
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2009
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Minuet: Rethinking Concurrency Control in Storage Area Networks
Clustered applications in storage area networks (SANs), widely adopted in enterprise datacenters, have traditionally relied on distributed locking protocols to coordinate concurre...
Andrey Ermolinskiy, Daekyeong Moon, Byung-Gon Chun...
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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, ...