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2008
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Using Utility to Provision Storage Systems
John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Christos Faloutsos, ...
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2010
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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
FAST
2010
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Accelerating Parallel Analysis of Scientific Simulation Data via Zazen
Tiankai Tu, Charles A. Rendleman, Patrick J. Mille...
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2010
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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...
FAST
2010
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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
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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
FAST
2010
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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
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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...
FAST
2010
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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...
FAST
2010
14 years 4 days 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,...