Storage systems need to support high-performance for special-purpose data processing
applications that run on an evolving storage device technology landscape. This puts …

CephFS represents a prominent distributed file system that utilizes directory fragment
migration to achieve improved runtime balance. However, its imprecise imbalance model …

The file system metadata service is the scalability bottleneck for many of today's workloads.
Common approaches for attacking this" metadata scaling wall" include: caching inodes on …

In Pervasive Healthcare, novel information and communication technologies are applied to
support the provision of health services anywhere, at anytime, and to anyone. Ubiquitous …

Distributed object-based storage models are an increasingly popular alternative to
traditional block-based or file-based storage abstractions in large-scale storage systems …

Global file system namespaces are difficult to scale because of the overheads of POSIX IO
metadata management. The file system metadata IO created by today's workloads subjects …

High energy physics experiments need a flexible and robust storage stack. Ceph provides
storage by stri** and replicating data across a reliable object store called RADOS. Ceph …

With the decreasing cost and wide-spread use of commodity hard drives, it has become
possible to create very large-scale storage systems with less expense. However, as we …