F2FS is a Linux file system designed to perform well on modern flash storage devices. The
file system builds on append-only logging and its key design decisions were made with the …

This paper reviews the history of storage systems. The first section begins with the era of
early mechanical calculators and the following four sections review historically major …

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 …

We have developed Ceph, a distributed file system that provides excellent performance,
reliability, and scalability. Ceph maximizes the separation between data and metadata …

(57) ABSTRACT A disk drive system and method capable of dynamically allocating data is
provided. The disk drive system may include a RAID Subsystem having a pool of storage, for …

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 …

A semi-static distribution technique distributes parity across disks of an array. According to
the technique, parity is distributed (assigned) across the disks of the array in a manner that …

The NVMe zoned namespace (ZNS) is emerging as a new storage interface, where the
logical address space is divided into fixed-sized zones, and each zone must be written …

Over the last decade we have witnessed the relentless technological improvement in flash-
based solidstate drives (SSDs) and they have many advantages over hard disk drives …

Availability is a storage system property that is both highly desired and yet minimally
engineered. While many systems provide mechanisms to improve availability-such as …