Scale and performance in a distributed file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Caching in the Sprite network file system
SOSP '87 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM Symposium on Operating systems principles
Leases: an efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency
SOSP '89 Proceedings of the twelfth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Measurements of a distributed file system
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Disconnected operation in the Coda file system
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The design and implementation of a log-structured file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A methodology for implementing highly concurrent data objects
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
An empirical study of a highly available file system
SIGMETRICS '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
The Vesta parallel file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Requirements of I/O systems for parallel machines: an application-driven study
Requirements of I/O systems for parallel machines: an application-driven study
On optimistic methods for concurrency control
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
A distributed file service based on optimistic concurrency control
Proceedings of the tenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
TACT: tunable availability and consistency tradeoffs for replicated Internet services
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Chord: a scalable peer-to-peer lookup protocol for internet applications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Farsite: federated, available, and reliable storage for an incompletely trusted environment
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - OSDI '02: Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Efficient Byzantine-Tolerant Erasure-Coded Storage
DSN '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
GPFS: A Shared-Disk File System for Large Computing Clusters
FAST '02 Proceedings of the 1st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Single instance storage in Windows® 2000
WSS'00 Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Windows Systems Symposium - Volume 4
PVFS: a parallel file system for linux clusters
ALS'00 Proceedings of the 4th annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Volume 4
Generalized file system dependencies
Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
Non-volatile memory and disks:: avenues for policy architectures
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Computer security architecture
A nine year study of file system and storage benchmarking
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
HPDC '08 Proceedings of the 17th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
StoreGPU: exploiting graphics processing units to accelerate distributed storage systems
HPDC '08 Proceedings of the 17th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
On GPU's viability as a middleware accelerator
Cluster Computing
ATTEST: ATTributes-based Extendable STorage
Journal of Systems and Software
Decentralized deduplication in SAN cluster file systems
USENIX'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on USENIX Annual technical conference
Leveraging value locality in optimizing NAND flash-based SSDs
FAST'11 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on File and stroage technologies
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Consistency, throughput, and scalability form the backbone of a cluster-based parallel file system. With little or no information about the workloads to be supported, a file system designer has to often make a one-glove-fits-all decision regarding the consistency policies. Taking a hard stance on consistency demotes throughput and scalability to second-class status, having to make do with whatever leeway is available. Leaving the choice and granularity of consistency policies to the user at open/mount time provides an attractive way of providing the best of all worlds. We present the design and implementation of such a file-store, CAPFS (Content Addressable Parallel File System), that allows the user to define consistency semantic policies at runtime. A client-side plug-in architecture based on user-written plug-ins leaves the choice of consistency policies to the end-user. The parallelism exploited by use of multiple data stores provides for bandwidth and scalability. We provide extensive evaluations of our prototype file system on a concurrent read/write workload and a parallel tiled visualization code.