6. FAST 2008: San Jose, California, USA

Mary Baker, Erik Riedel (Eds.): 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, FAST 2008, February 26-29, 2008, San Jose, CA, USA. USENIX 2008, ISBN 978-1-931971-56-0 BibTeX

Distributed Storage

Mark W. Storer, Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti:
Pergamum: Replacing Tape with Energy Efficient, Reliable, Disk-Based Archival Storage. 1-16
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Brent Welch, Marc Unangst, Zainul Abbasi, Garth A. Gibson, Brian Mueller, Jason Small, Jim Zelenka, Bin Zhou:
Scalable Performance of the Panasas Parallel File System. 17-33
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Michael J. Demmer, Bowei Du, Eric A. Brewer:
TierStore: A Distributed Filesystem for Challenged Networks in Developing Regions. 35-48
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Binny S. Gill:
On Multi-level Exclusive Caching: Offline Optimality and Why Promotions Are Better Than Demotions. 49-65
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Alexandros Batsakis, Randal C. Burns, Arkady Kanevsky, James Lentini, Thomas Talpey:
AWOL: An Adaptive Write Optimizations Layer. 67-80
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Mingju Li, Elizabeth Varki, Swapnil Bhatia, Arif Merchant:
TaP: Table-based Prefetching for Storage Caches. 81-96
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Failures and Loss

James S. Plank:
The RAID-6 Liberation Codes. 97-110
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Weihang Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Arkady Kanevsky:
Are Disks the Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures? A Comprehensive Study of Storage Subsystem Failure Characteristics. 111-125
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Andrew Krioukov, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth R. Goodson, Kiran Srinivasan, Randy Thelen, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau:
Parity Lost and Parity Regained. 127-141
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CPUs, Compilers, and Packets, Oh My!

Sangeetha Seshadri, Lawrence Chiu, Cornel Constantinescu, Subashini Balachandran, Clem Dickey, Ling Liu, Paul Muench:
Enhancing Storage System Availability on Multi-Core Architectures with Recovery-Conscious Scheduling. 143-158
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Mahmut T. Kandemir, Seung Woo Son, Mustafa Karaköy:
Improving I/O Performance of Applications through Compiler-Directed Code Restructuring. 159-174
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Amar Phanishayee, Elie Krevat, Vijay Vasudevan, David G. Andersen, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson, Srinivasan Seshan:
Measurement and Analysis of TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-based Storage Systems. 175-188
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Where Did We Go Wrong?

Dan Tsafrir, Tomer Hertz, David Wagner, Dilma Da Silva:
Portably Solving File TOCTTOU Races with Hardness Amplification. 189-206
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Haryadi S. Gunawi, Cindy Rubio-González, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Ben Liblit:
EIO: Error Handling is Occasionally Correct. 207-222
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Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth R. Goodson, Bianca Schroeder, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau:
An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack. 223-238
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Buffers, Power, and Bottlenecks

Hyojun Kim, Seongjun Ahn:
BPLRU: A Buffer Management Scheme for Improving Random Writes in Flash Storage. 239-252
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Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Antony I. T. Rowstron:
Write Off-Loading: Practical Power Management for Enterprise Storage. 253-267
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Benjamin Zhu, Kai Li, R. Hugo Patterson:
Avoiding the Disk Bottleneck in the Data Domain Deduplication File System. 269-282
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Compliance and Provisioning

Pieter H. Hartel, Leon Abelmann, Mohammed G. Khatib:
Towards Tamper-evident Storage on Patterned Media. 283-296
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Akshat Verma, Kaladhar Voruganti, Ramani Routray, Rohit Jain:
SWEEPER: An Efficient Disaster Recovery Point Identification Mechanism. 297-312
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John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Christos Faloutsos, Gregory R. Ganger:
Using Utility to Provision Storage Systems. 313-328
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