Required Text
There is no required text, although the book
Preston, W.C., Using SANs and NAS,
O'Reilly, February 2002
is pretty good. It's light reading, however.
Readings:
You must read and understand the following papers before the end of
the second week of class:
Research Papers
- McKusick, M.K., Joy, W.N., Leffler, S.J., Fabry, R.S., A fast
file system for Unix, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, V2#3,
August 1984, Ppg 181-197.
- Rosenblum, M. and Ousterhout, J.K., The design and
implementation of a log-structure file system, ACM
Transactions on Computer Systems, V10#1, February 1992,
Ppg. 26-52.
- Seltzer, M., Bostic, K., McKusick, M.K., Staelin, C.,
An implementation of a log-structured file system for Unix,
Proceedings of the 1993 Winter Usenix Conference, Ppg. 307-326,
San Diego, CA.
- Patterson, D.A., Gibson, G. and Katz, R.H., A
case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID),
Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on
Management of Data, 1988, Ppg. 109-116.
- Wang, J. and Hu, Y., WOLF--a
novel reordering write buffer to boost the performance of
log-structured file systems, Proceedings of the FAST 2002
Conference on File and Storage Technologies, Monterey, CA,
January 2002, Ppg. 47-60.
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by Joseph N. Wilson.