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FGCS
2002
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Cluster file systems: a case study
Traditional distributed file systems do not provide clusters with strict single-system image, and cannot fully meet the cluster applications requirements, such as I/O performance,...
Jianyong Wang, Zhiwei Xu
CLUSTER
2004
IEEE
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Seamless Access to Decentralized Storage Services in Computational Grids via a Virtual File System
This paper describes a novel technique for establishing a virtual file system that allows data to be transferred user-transparently and on-demand across computing and storage serve...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, Nirav H. Kapadia, Jos&eac...
TOCS
2008
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Rethink the sync
We introduce external synchrony, a new model for local file I/O that provides the reliability and simplicity of synchronous I/O, yet also closely approximates the performance of a...
Edmund B. Nightingale, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Pete...
SIGOPS
2008
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Practical techniques for purging deleted data using liveness information
The layered design of the Linux operating system hides the liveness of file system data from the underlying block layers. This lack of liveness information prevents the storage sy...
David Boutcher, Abhishek Chandra
JPDC
2006
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CEFT: A cost-effective, fault-tolerant parallel virtual file system
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...
Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang
JPDC
2006
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A light-weight, collaborative temporary file system for clustered Web servers
Previous studies indicate that I/O could become a performance bottleneck in commodity PC-based cluster Web servers. Current local native file systems do not work well for expensiv...
Jun Wang
USENIX
1990
14 years 20 days ago
Efficient User-Level File Cache Management on the Sun Vnode Interface
In developing a distributed file system, there are several good reasons for implementing the client file cache manager as a user-level process. These include ease of implementatio...
David C. Steere, James J. Kistler, Mahadev Satyana...
USENIX
1994
14 years 25 days ago
Reducing File System Latency using a Predictive Approach
Despite impressive advances in file system throughput resulting from technologies such as high-bandwidth networks and disk arrays, file system latency has not improved and in many...
Jim Griffioen, Randy Appleton
PDPTA
2000
14 years 26 days ago
The PODOS File System - Exploiting the High-Speed Communication Subsystem
Performance Oriented Distributed Operating System (PODOS) is a clustering environment, being built on a monolithic Linux kernel. PODOS augments very few components to the Linux ke...
Sudharshan Vazhkudai, P. Tobin Maginnis
OSDI
2000
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Latency Management in Storage Systems
Storage Latency Estimation Descriptors, or SLEDs, are an API that allow applications to understand and take advantage of the dynamic state of a storage system. By accessing data i...
Rodney Van Meter, Minxi Gao