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 ...
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...
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...
Clustered applications in storage area networks (SANs), widely adopted in enterprise datacenters, have traditionally relied on distributed locking protocols to coordinate concurre...
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...
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...
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. ...
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, ...