A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)
SIGMOD '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
The X-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The design and implementation of a log-structured file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The logical disk: a new approach to improving file systems
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
File-system development with stackable layers
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) - Special issue on operating systems principles
The Zebra striped network file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
File server scaling with network-attached secure disks
SIGMETRICS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
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SOSP '83 Proceedings of the ninth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The Swarm Scalable Storage System
ICDCS '99 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Extending file systems using stackable templates
ATEC '99 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
nfsp: A Distributed NFS Server for Clusters of Workstations
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Algorithms for memory hierarchies: advanced lectures
Algorithms for memory hierarchies: advanced lectures
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Swarm [3] is a storage system for Linux that provides scalable, reliable, and cost-effective data storage. At its lowest level, Swarm implements a log-structured interface to a cluster of storage devices. Above the log, Swarm provides an infrastructure that allows high-level abstractions and functionality to be implemented easily and efficiently. This paper describes the design and implementation of Swarm, paying particular attention to the Swarm infrastructure and how it has been used to construct two storage systems: Sting, a log-structured file system for Linux, and ext2fs/Swarm, a Swarm-based version of the Linux ext2 file system that runs unmodified above ablock device compatibility layer. The paper concludes with a discussion of our experiences using Linux as a platform for research.