When blockchain meets distributed file systems: An overview, challenges, and open issues

H Huang, J Lin, B Zheng, Z Zheng, J Bian - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Constructing globally distributed file systems (DFS) has received great attention. Traditional
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) distributed file systems have inevitable drawbacks such as instability …

f4: Facebook's warm {BLOB} storage system

S Muralidhar, W Lloyd, S Roy, C Hill, E Lin… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2014 - usenix.org
Facebook's corpus of photos, videos, and other Binary Large OBjects (BLOBs) that need to
be reliably stored and quickly accessible is massive and continues to grow. As the footprint …

Apparatus, system, and method for accessing memory

N Talagala, D Flynn - US Patent 9,208,071, 2015 - Google Patents
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for providing
access to auto-commit memory. An auto-commit memory module is configured to cause a …

Oceanstore: An architecture for global-scale persistent storage

J Kubiatowicz, D Bindel, Y Chen, S Czerwinski… - ACM SIGOPS …, 2000 - dl.acm.org
OceanStore is a utility infrastructure designed to span the globe and provide continuous
access to persistent information. Since this infrastructure is comprised of untrusted servers …

Storage management and caching in PAST, a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility

A Rowstron, P Druschel - … of the eighteenth ACM symposium on …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents and evaluates the storage management and caching in PAST, a large-
scale peer-to-peer persistent storage utility. PAST is based on a self-organizing, Internet …

RACS: a case for cloud storage diversity

H Abu-Libdeh, L Princehouse… - Proceedings of the 1st …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
The increasing popularity of cloud storage is leading organizations to consider moving data
out of their own data centers and into the cloud. However, success for cloud storage …

Erasure coding immutable data

H Simitci, Y Xu, H Wang, AW Ogus… - US Patent 8,473,778, 2013 - Google Patents
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods and computer storage
media for erasure coding data in a distributed computing environment. A sealed extent is …

[PDF][PDF] Rethinking erasure codes for cloud file systems: minimizing I/O for recovery and degraded reads.

O Khan, RC Burns, JS Plank, W Pierce, C Huang - FAST, 2012 - usenix.org
To reduce storage overhead, cloud file systems are transitioning from replication to erasure
codes. This process has revealed new dimensions on which to evaluate the performance of …

Pyramid codes: Flexible schemes to trade space for access efficiency in reliable data storage systems

C Huang, M Chen, J Li - ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2013 - dl.acm.org
We design flexible schemes to explore the tradeoffs between storage space and access
efficiency in reliable data storage systems. Aiming at this goal, two new classes of erasure …

Apparatus, system, and method for data block usage information synchronization for a non-volatile storage volume

D Flynn, D Atkisson, D Dixon, J Flynn… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
US 2010/0211737 A1 Aug. 19, 2010 Related US Application Data Continuation-in-part of
application No. 11/952,109, filed on Dec. 6, 2007, now Pat. No. 8,296,337, and a …