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* FAB: Enterprise Storage Systems on a Shoestring

Abstract: 

A Federated Array of Bricks (FAB) is a logical disk system that provides the reliability and performance of enterprise-class disk arrays, at a fraction of the cost and with better scalability. The unit of deployment in FAB is a brick, a small rack-mounted storage appliance built from commodity components including disks, a CPU, NVRAM, and network cards. Bricks federate themselves in a completely decentralized manner to provide users with a set of logical volumes. This paper motivates FAB and introduces our data replication algorithm based on majority-voting. We argue that majority voting is practical for ultra-reliable, high-throughput storage systems like FAB, and present several techniques that improve both the performance and space overhead of our protocol.

Svend Frølund, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Arif Merchant, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Yasushi Saito, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Susan Spence, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Alistair Veitch, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

BibTeX
@inproceedings {270271,
author = {Svend Fr{\o}lund and Arif Merchant and Yasushi Saito and Susan Spence and Alistair Veitch},
title = {* {FAB}: Enterprise Storage Systems on a Shoestring},
booktitle = {9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS IX)},
year = {2003},
address = {Lihue, HI},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos-ix/fab-enterprise-storage-systems-shoestring},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = may,
}
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http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/frolund/frolund.pdf
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