ACM Transactions on Storage

For a decade, the Ceph distributed file system followed the conventional wisdom of building its storage backend on top of local file systems. This is a preferred choice for most distributed file systems today, because it allows them to benefit from the ...

File systems are too large to be bug free. Although handwritten test suites have been widely used to stress file systems, they can hardly keep up with the rapid increase in file system size and complexity, leading to new bugs being introduced. These ...

Erasure codes in large-scale storage systems allow recovery of data from a failed node. A recently developed class of codes, locally repairable codes (LRCs), offers tradeoffs between storage overhead and repair cost. LRCs facilitate efficient recovery ...

Data encryption and authentication are essential for secure non-volatile memory (NVM). However, the introduced security metadata needs to be atomically written back to NVM along with data, so as to provide crash consistency, which unfortunately incurs ...

Regular file server upgrades are indispensable to improve performance, robustness, and power consumption. In upgrading file servers, it is crucial to quickly migrate file-sharing services between heterogeneous servers with little downtime while ...

Flash-based key-value caching is becoming popular in data centers for providing high-speed key-value services. These systems adopt slab-based space management on flash and provide a low-cost solution for key-value caching. However, optimizing cache ...