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2008
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Portably Solving File TOCTTOU Races with Hardness Amplification
The file-system API of contemporary systems makes programs vulnerable to TOCTTOU (time of check to time of use) race conditions. Existing solutions either help users to detect the...
Dan Tsafrir, Tomer Hertz, David Wagner, Dilma Da S...
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2008
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Avoiding the Disk Bottleneck in the Data Domain Deduplication File System
Disk-based deduplication storage has emerged as the new-generation storage system for enterprise data protection to replace tape libraries. Deduplication removes redundant data se...
Benjamin Zhu, Kai Li, R. Hugo Patterson
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2008
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TaP: Table-based Prefetching for Storage Caches
TaP is a storage cache sequential prefetching and caching technique to improve the read-ahead cache hit rate and system response time. A unique feature of TaP is the use of a tabl...
Mingju Li, Elizabeth Varki, Swapnil Bhatia, Arif M...
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2008
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TierStore: A Distributed Filesystem for Challenged Networks in Developing Regions
TierStore is a distributed filesystem that simplifies the development and deployment of applications in challenged network environments, such as those in developing regions. For e...
Michael J. Demmer, Bowei Du, Eric A. Brewer
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2008
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SWEEPER: An Efficient Disaster Recovery Point Identification Mechanism
Data corruption is one of the key problems that is on top of the radar screen of most CIOs. Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technologies help enterprises deal with data corruptio...
Akshat Verma, Kaladhar Voruganti, Ramani Routray, ...
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2008
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AWOL: An Adaptive Write Optimizations Layer
Operating system memory managers fail to consider the population of read versus write pages in the buffer pool or outstanding I/O requests when writing dirty pages to disk or netw...
Alexandros Batsakis, Randal C. Burns, Arkady Kanev...
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2008
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Improving I/O Performance of Applications through Compiler-Directed Code Restructuring
Ever-increasing complexity of large-scale applications and continuous increases in sizes of the data they process make the problem of maximizing performance of such applications a...
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Seung Woo Son, Mustafa Karak&o...
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2008
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Write Off-Loading: Practical Power Management for Enterprise Storage
In enterprise data centers power usage is a problem impacting server density and the total cost of ownership. Storage uses a significant fraction of the power budget and there are...
Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Antony I. T....
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2008
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Using Utility to Provision Storage Systems
John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Christos Faloutsos, ...