The logical disk: a new approach to improving file systems
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Lightweight recoverable virtual memory
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) - Special issue on operating systems principles
The HP AutoRAID hierarchical storage system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) - Special issue on operating system principles
The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system
The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system
DCD—disk caching disk: a new approach for boosting I/O performance
ISCA '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Strategic directions in storage I/O issues in large-scale computing
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special ACM 50th-anniversary issue: strategic directions in computing research
Free transactions with Rio Vista
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Linux Journal
Soft updates: a solution to the metadata update problem in file systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
RAPID-Cache-A Reliable and Inexpensive Write Cache for High Performance Storage Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
GNBD/VIA: A Network Block Device over Virtual Interface Architecture on Linux
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Repeating History Beyond ARIES
VLDB '99 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Atomic recovery units: failure atomicity for logical disks
ICDCS '96 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '96)
Highly Concurrent Shared Storage
ICDCS '00 Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS 2000)
Journaling versus soft updates: asynchronous meta-data protection in file systems
ATEC '00 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Scalability in the XFS file system
ATEC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Soft updates: a technique for eliminating most synchronous writes in the fast filesystem
ATEC '99 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Lease-based consistency schemes in the web environment
Future Generation Computer Systems
Extending Middleware Protocols for Database Replication with Integrity Support
OTM '08 Proceedings of the OTM 2008 Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, GADA, IS, and ODBASE 2008. Part I on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems:
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
With the recent trend to use storage area networks in distributed and cluster systems there is a need to improve the integrity and consistency guarantees of stored data in the presence of node or network failures. Currently, the main method for preserving data integrity and consistency is by logging techniques, e.g. journaling. This paper presents a new general method for preserving data consistency by Atomic multi-block Writes. The Atomic Writes method guarantees that either all the blocks in a write operation are written or no blocks are written at all. Its main advantage is that it does not require a recovery phase after a failure. The Atomic Writes method should be implemented in both the operating system and the storage system levels. It is easy to use and to implement. We present the method, its implementation and an example of its use for handling meta-data consistency in an existing file system that supports shared storage.